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Taming the inaccessible web

Harper, Simon, Bechhofer, Sean, Lunn, Darren·2006·Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
DOI 10.1145/1166324.1166340
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Abstract

Visually impaired users are hindered in their efforts to access the largest repository of electronic information in the world, namely the World Wide Web (Web). A visually impaired users information and presentation requirements are different from a sighted user in that they are highly egocentric and non-visual. These requirements can become problems in that the Web is visually centric with regard to presentation and information order/layout, this can (and does) hinder users who need presentation-agnostic access to information. Finding semantic information already encoded directly into documents can help to alleviate these problems and support users who wish to understand the content as opposed to the presentation and order of the information. If this is to happen in the "real world", however, authors must incur no "design overhead" when creating documents. Our solution, Structural-Semantics for Accessibility and Device Independence (SADIe) involves building ontologies of Cascading Sytle-Sheets (CSS) and using those ontologies to transformWeb pages. In this way we find that we can indeed "tame" inaccessible Web pages

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Authors
Harper, S., Bechhofer, S., & Lunn, D.
Affiliations
University of Manchester (GB)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Publisher
ACM
Published
2006-10-18
Volume
3928
Pages
64-69
DOI
10.1145/1166324.1166340
OpenAlex
W2066431001
Cited by
12
References
0
Citations by year
2019: 1 · 2014: 1
FWCI
3.65
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web Applications and Data Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
Keywords
web accessibility, visual impairment, semantic web, ontology (information science), Cascading Style Sheets, device independence

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