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WAB: World Wide Web access for blind and visually impaired computer users

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ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped archive
Issue 55 (June 1996) table of contents

Pages: 10 - 15

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0163-5727

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Andrea Kennel	Institut für Informationssysteme, Zürich, Switzerland
Louis Perrochon	Institut für Informationssysteme, Zürich, Switzerland
Alireza Darvishi	Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A blind or visually impaired user can get lost in hyperspace on one single W3-page. This paper presents Web Access for Blind users (WAB), a working system which makes web-surfing easier for blind persons. Normally, structure and meta information in HTML documents are displayed visually and are difficult for blind users to recognize. WAB transforms structure and meta information into a form that can be more easily read by visually handicapped people. Titles, links and form elements are described textually. Special navigation aids allow the blind user to navigate through the title hierarchy as well as through the list of links. The implemented system works with any World-Wide-Web-browser and any screen reader. No additional software has to be installed on the user's computer.

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