Prototype mobility tools for visually impaired surfers

ABSTRACT

In [1] we extended the notion of travel to include environment, feedback and the purpose of the current travel task. Specifically, we likened web use to travelling in a virtual space, compared it to travelling in a physical space, and introduced the idea of mobility - the ease of travel - as opposed to travel opportunity. This paper describes our continuing work in building a prototype mobility tool to address some of these issues.

REFERENCES

• 1: Carole Goble , Simon Harper , Robert Stevens, The travails of visually impaired web travellers, Proceedings of the eleventh ACM on Hypertext and hypermedia, p.1-10, May 30-June 03, 2000, San Antonio, Texas, United States [doi>10.1145/336296.336304]
• 2: WWW Consortium - http://www.w3c.org
• 3: http://www.man.ac.uk/towel/TMETest.html
• 4: Harper S., Stevens R., Goble C., 2000, Web Mobility Guidelines for Visually Impaired Surfers, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology Special Issue on HCI, Vol. 33, No. 2, ed. Hammond J., May 2001, Australian Computer Society.
• 5: Chaomei Chen, Structuring and visualising the WWW by generalised similarity analysis, Proceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext, p.177-186, April 06-11, 1997, Southampton, United Kingdom [doi>10.1145/267437.267456]
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: User issues

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)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Hypertext/hypermedia

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
implementation, mobility, prototype, visual impairment