Accessibility and visually impaired users

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandes, António Ramires
Publication Date: 2006
Other Authors: Pereira, Jorge, Campos, J. Creissac
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/761
Summary: Internet accessibility for the visually impaired community is still an open issue. Guidelines have been issued by the W3C consortium to help web designers to improve web site accessibility. However several studies show that a significant percentage of web page creators are still ignoring the proposed guidelines. Several tools are now available, general purpose, or web specific, to help visually impaired readers. But is reading a web page enough? Regular sighted users are able to scan a web page for a particular piece of information at high speeds. Shouldn't visually impaired readers have the same chance? This paper discusses some features already implemented to improve accessibility and presents a user feedback report regarding the AudioBrowser, a talking browser. Based on the user feedback the paper also suggests some avenues for future work in order to make talking browsers and screen readers compatible.
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spelling Accessibility and visually impaired usersAccessibilityInternetVisually impaired usersTalking browsersScience & TechnologyInternet accessibility for the visually impaired community is still an open issue. Guidelines have been issued by the W3C consortium to help web designers to improve web site accessibility. However several studies show that a significant percentage of web page creators are still ignoring the proposed guidelines. Several tools are now available, general purpose, or web specific, to help visually impaired readers. But is reading a web page enough? Regular sighted users are able to scan a web page for a particular piece of information at high speeds. Shouldn't visually impaired readers have the same chance? This paper discusses some features already implemented to improve accessibility and presents a user feedback report regarding the AudioBrowser, a talking browser. Based on the user feedback the paper also suggests some avenues for future work in order to make talking browsers and screen readers compatible.The research reported in here was supported by SNRIP (The Portuguese National Secretariat of Rehabilitation and Integration for the Disabled) under program CITE 2001, and also FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) and POSI/2001 (Operational Program for the Information Society) with funds partly awarded by FEDER.INSTICC PressUniversidade do MinhoFernandes, António RamiresPereira, JorgeCampos, J. Creissac20062006-01-01T00:00:00Zconference paperinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/761eng972-8865-00-7info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-05-11T07:33:58Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/761Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T16:31:36.856233Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Accessibility and visually impaired users
title Accessibility and visually impaired users
spellingShingle Accessibility and visually impaired users
Fernandes, António Ramires
Accessibility
Internet
Visually impaired users
Talking browsers
Science & Technology
title_short Accessibility and visually impaired users
title_full Accessibility and visually impaired users
title_fullStr Accessibility and visually impaired users
title_full_unstemmed Accessibility and visually impaired users
title_sort Accessibility and visually impaired users
author Fernandes, António Ramires
author_facet Fernandes, António Ramires
Pereira, Jorge
Campos, J. Creissac
author_role author
author2 Pereira, Jorge
Campos, J. Creissac
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fernandes, António Ramires
Pereira, Jorge
Campos, J. Creissac
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Accessibility
Internet
Visually impaired users
Talking browsers
Science & Technology
topic Accessibility
Internet
Visually impaired users
Talking browsers
Science & Technology
description Internet accessibility for the visually impaired community is still an open issue. Guidelines have been issued by the W3C consortium to help web designers to improve web site accessibility. However several studies show that a significant percentage of web page creators are still ignoring the proposed guidelines. Several tools are now available, general purpose, or web specific, to help visually impaired readers. But is reading a web page enough? Regular sighted users are able to scan a web page for a particular piece of information at high speeds. Shouldn't visually impaired readers have the same chance? This paper discusses some features already implemented to improve accessibility and presents a user feedback report regarding the AudioBrowser, a talking browser. Based on the user feedback the paper also suggests some avenues for future work in order to make talking browsers and screen readers compatible.
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