Position paper: Tools for the development of accessible and interoperable services for the Web of Things: Paper presented at W3C Workshop on the Web of Things - Enablers and services for an open Web of Devices, 25-26 June 2014, Berlin, Germany

The Web of Things is about extending the Internet of Things [Ashton 2009] concept beyond the connection of things and considering issues like heterogeneity, scalability and usability with respect to progressive computing [Mayer et al. 2013]. By introducing web technologies, the concept overpasses Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication and incorporates interaction with users into the landscape. Until now, there is not a lot of research in this domain on developing accessible applications for people with special needs. This position paper presents our initial approach to define and implement a semantic web-based framework for interoperable and accessible services in the Web of Things, which extends previous work of the authors for web 2.0 applications