TY - GEN
T1 - Speed-dial
T2 - 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2017
AU - Billah, Syed Masum
AU - Ashok, Vikas
AU - Porter, Donald E.
AU - Ramakrishnan, I. V.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Glenn Dausch, Yevgen Borodin, and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback that helped shape this paper. Asmita Negi, Leela Bharath Kumar, and Rakesh Agarwal contributed to the implementation of Speed-Dial. This research was supported in part by NSF: IIS-1447549, CNS-1405641; National Eye Institute of NIH: R01EY026621; and NIDILRR: 90IF0117-01-00. 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.
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PY - 2017/10/19
Y1 - 2017/10/19
N2 - Sighted people can browse the Web almost exclusively using a mouse. This is because web browsing mostly entails pointing and clicking on some element in the web page, and these two operations can be done almost instantaneously with a computer mouse. Unfortunately, people with vision impairments cannot use a mouse as it only provides visual feedback through a cursor. Instead, they are forced to go through a slow and tedious process of building a mental map of the web page, relying primarily on a screen reader's keyboard shortcuts and its serial audio readout of the textual content of the page, including metadata. This can often cause content and cognitive overload. This paper describes our Speed-Dial system which uses an off-the-shelf physical Dial as a surrogate for the mouse for non-visual web browsing. Speed-Dial interfaces the physical Dial with the semantic model of a web page, and provides an intuitive and rapid access to the entities and their content in the model, thereby bringing blind people's browsing experience closer to how sighted people perceive and interact with the Web. A user study with blind participants suggests that with Speed-Dial they can quickly move around the web page to select content of interest, akin to pointing and clicking with a mouse.
AB - Sighted people can browse the Web almost exclusively using a mouse. This is because web browsing mostly entails pointing and clicking on some element in the web page, and these two operations can be done almost instantaneously with a computer mouse. Unfortunately, people with vision impairments cannot use a mouse as it only provides visual feedback through a cursor. Instead, they are forced to go through a slow and tedious process of building a mental map of the web page, relying primarily on a screen reader's keyboard shortcuts and its serial audio readout of the textual content of the page, including metadata. This can often cause content and cognitive overload. This paper describes our Speed-Dial system which uses an off-the-shelf physical Dial as a surrogate for the mouse for non-visual web browsing. Speed-Dial interfaces the physical Dial with the semantic model of a web page, and provides an intuitive and rapid access to the entities and their content in the model, thereby bringing blind people's browsing experience closer to how sighted people perceive and interact with the Web. A user study with blind participants suggests that with Speed-Dial they can quickly move around the web page to select content of interest, akin to pointing and clicking with a mouse.
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U2 - 10.1145/3132525.3132531
DO - 10.1145/3132525.3132531
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041385540
T3 - ASSETS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 110
EP - 119
BT - ASSETS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 29 October 2017 through 1 November 2017
ER -