Application of content adaptation in web accessibility for the blind

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TitleApplication of content adaptation in web accessibility for the blind
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsLai, Pauli P. Y.
JournalProceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility - W4A '11
Pagination1
ISBN Number9781450304764
Keywordsblind, Web accessibility, Web design
AbstractWhile many people enjoy surfing the Web without any difficulty, the blind people could only read webpage with the help of screen reader which reads aloud the whole webpage. This approach is quite time consuming for them to get to their interested content even though some screen readers allow tabbing through links or headings. It is proposed to adapt the webpage into different logical sections, each would be given a descriptive heading and a number so that the user can enter the number in order to get into the details of that section. The whole idea is like converting the webpage into an IVRS (Interactive Voice Response Systems) so that the blind people can access the webpage using mobile phone by hearing the index page and getting into details by pressing the corresponding number on the key pad.
NotesThis paper is focusing on the web accessibility design for blind people. The traditional software that blind people use to navigate a webpage, such as Microsoft Narrator and Mac VoiceOver, usually start reading from the top and traverse the whole webpage sequentially, thus wasting a bunch of time and energy. In order to conquer this difficulty, the paper proposes to reorganize the webpage according to the structure of its semantic content. Users then could hear the menu list of headings and jump to the corresponding sections that they are interested in. It firstly presents the reverse engineering process of the proposed idea. Then, it discusses the way to improve Web accessibility for the blind.
URLhttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1969289.1969298
DOI10.1145/1969289.1969298