Enhancing web accessibility

ABSTRACT

This demonstration will illustrate the key technical and user interface aspects of the Web Adaptation Technology. Various transformations underlying the system will be shown that illustrate how this approach enables a wide range of users with reduced visual, cognitive, and motor abilities to access a large proportion of Web pages using a standard browser.

REFERENCES

• 1: Yu Chen , Wei-Ying Ma , Hong-Jiang Zhang, Detecting web page structure for adaptive viewing on small form factor devices, Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary [doi>10.1145/775152.775184]
• 2: Fairweather, P. G., Richards, J. T., and Hanson, V. L. Distributed Accessibility Control Points to Help Deliver a Directly Accessible Web. Universal Access in the Information Society, 2, 70--75. DOI 10.1007/s10209-002-0037-3.
• 3: Tibbitts, B. R., Crayne, S., Hanson, V. L., Brezin, J.,Swart, C., & Richards, J. T. HTML Parsing in Java for Accessibility Transformations. In Proceedings of XML 2002, 2002.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Standardization; User-centered design
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: Navigation; User issues

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Multi/mixed media
      I.7.5 Document Capture
          Subjects: Document analysis

General Terms:
Algorithms, Human Factors, Standardization

Keywords:
accessibility, enlarge text, image enlargement, page linearization, page segmentation, speak text, the Web