TY - GEN
T1 - Non-visual web browsing
T2 - 11th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2017
AU - Ramakrishnan, I. V.
AU - Ashok, Vikas
AU - Billah, Syed Masum
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by NSF awards: IIS-1447549, CNS-1405641; National Eye Institute of NIH award: R01EY026621; NIDILRR: 90IF0117-01-00. NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH nor represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - People with vision impairments typically use screen readers to browse the Web. To facilitate non-visual browsing, web sites must be made accessible to screen readers, i.e., all the visible elements in the web site must be readable by the screen reader. But even if web sites are accessible, screen-reader users may not find them easy to use and/or easy to navigate. For example, they may not be able to locate the desired information without having to listen to a lot of irrelevant contents. These issues go beyond web accessibility and directly impact web usability. Several techniques have been reported in the accessibility literature for making the Web usable for screen reading. This paper is a review of these techniques. Interestingly, the review reveals that understanding the semantics of the web content is the overarching theme that drives these techniques for improving web usability.
AB - People with vision impairments typically use screen readers to browse the Web. To facilitate non-visual browsing, web sites must be made accessible to screen readers, i.e., all the visible elements in the web site must be readable by the screen reader. But even if web sites are accessible, screen-reader users may not find them easy to use and/or easy to navigate. For example, they may not be able to locate the desired information without having to listen to a lot of irrelevant contents. These issues go beyond web accessibility and directly impact web usability. Several techniques have been reported in the accessibility literature for making the Web usable for screen reading. This paper is a review of these techniques. Interestingly, the review reveals that understanding the semantics of the web content is the overarching theme that drives these techniques for improving web usability.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-58703-5_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-58703-5_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85025144756
SN - 9783319587028
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 322
EP - 334
BT - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
A2 - Antona, Margherita
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 9 July 2017 through 14 July 2017
ER -