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WebAnywhere: a screen reading interface for the web on any computer

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 317 archive
Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A) table of contents

Beijing, China

SESSION: Web accessibility challenge table of contents

Pages 132-133

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-153-8

Authors

Jeffrey P. Bigham	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Craig M. Prince	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Sangyun Hahn	University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Richard E. Ladner	University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Sponsors

: Zakon Group
: Google
SIGACCESS: ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing
Microsoft : Microsoft
: The Mozilla Foundation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Fulfilling the promise of a web-enabled global community means enabling blind web users to access their information and collaborative web services wherever they happen to be on whatever computer to which they happen to have access. Whether they're checking their email at a local internet café, using an airport kiosk to connect with a new business contact on a social networking site, or collaboratively editing a document in a hotel business center, blind web users need to stay connected to be successful. While web-enabled computers are everywhere, screen readers are installed on very few. Downloading and installing new software can take a long time and is difficult without a screen reading interface, and many will not allow users to download and install new software at all. Accessible mobile devices are prohibitively expensive. WebAnywhere is a free screen-reading web application capable of making the web accessible to blind users on any web-enabled computer or device, regardless of platform or browser used, without installing new software.

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	1	Jeffrey P. Bigham , Craig M. Prince , Richard E. Ladner, WebAnywhere: a screen reader on-the-go, Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A), April 21-22, 2008, Beijing, China [doi>10.1145/1368044.1368060]
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