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Lalana Kagal.
Vontell, Aaron Richard.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2019-07-15T20:33:58Z
2019-07-15T20:33:58Z
2019
2019
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121685
1102057544
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-99).
In this thesis, I designed and implemented a testing framework, called Bility, to assess the accessibility of mobile applications. Implemented in Java and Kotlin, this framework automatically navigates through an application, finding both dynamic and static accessibility issues. I developed techniques for unique view detection, automatically building a representation of the dynamic behavior of an application, and making navigation decisions based on application state and history in order to find these accessibility issues. I compared Bility's ability to detect issues against existing tools such as the Google Accessibility Scanner. I found that Bility performs significantly better and is able to detect additional static issues, as well as discover dynamic accessibility issues that current tools do not detect.
by Aaron Richard Vontell.
M.Eng.
M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
99 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Bility : automated accessibility testing for mobile applications
Automated accessibility testing for mobile applications
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