International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (Dec 2009)

Security Guidelines for the Development of Accessible Web Applications through the implementation of intelligent systems

  • Luis Joyanes Aguilar,
  • Gloria García Fernández,
  • Oscar Sanjuán Martínez,
  • Edward Rolando Núñez Valdez,
  • Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 79 – 86

Abstract

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Due to the significant increase in threats, attacks and vulnerabilities that affect the Web in recent years has resulted the development and implementation of pools and methods to ensure security measures in the privacy, confidentiality and data integrity of users and businesses. Under certain circumstances, despite the implementation of these tools do not always get the flow of information which is passed in a secure manner. Many of these security tools and methods cannot be accessed by people who have disabilities or assistive technologies which enable people to access the Web efficiently. Among these security tools that are not accessible are the virtual keyboard, the CAPTCHA and other technologies that help to some extent to ensure safety on the Internet and are used in certain measures to combat malicious code and attacks that have been increased in recent times on the Web. Through the implementation of intelligent systems can detect, recover and receive information on the characteristics and properties of the different tools and hardware devices or software with which the user is accessing a web application and through analysis and interpretation of these intelligent systems can infer and automatically adjust the characteristics necessary to have these tools to be accessible by anyone regardless of disability or navigation context. This paper defines a set of guidelines and specific features that should have the security tools and methods to ensure the Web accessibility through the implementation of intelligent systems.

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