{"title":"A mobile interactive maps application for a visually impaired audience","authors":"Nikolaos Kaklanis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461152","url":null,"abstract":"Existing spatial information resources on the Web are graphically-orientated and are usually presented through interactive maps. As a consequence, in most of the cases, visually impaired users and especially blind users have very restricted access while they find it extremely difficult to recognize this kind of visual representation. Multimodal and mobile interactive maps could be a solution for presenting the spatial information resources to visually impaired people. In this paper, we present an interactive multimodal map application by investigating ways of presenting alternative formats that would replace visual information. \"Open Touch/Sound Maps\" is an Android mobile application, which enforces the accessibility of interactive maps for the visually impaired users. Multimodal interaction including sonification, Text-To-Speech (TTS) and vibration feedback enables access to OpenStreetMap data for the visually impaired and blind users using a common mobile device.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"276 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120886049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essential components of mobile web accessibility","authors":"Shadi Abou-Zahra, Judy Brewer, S. Henry","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461138","url":null,"abstract":"The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. This includes ensuring that core web technologies such as HTML and CSS provide support for accessibility; developing complementary web specifications to support accessibility, such as WAI-ARIA and IndieUI; and maintaining a set of internationally recognized guidelines that define accessibility criteria for web authoring tools such as content management systems and code editors, for user agents such as web browsers and media players, and for web content including text, images, scripts, audio-visual media, and more. This communication paper explores the impact on these essential components of web accessibility as the Web rapidly evolves into an increasingly mobile and ubiquitous medium, and highlights opportunities for research and development to help make the Web universally accessible to all users.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128362548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic injection of WAI-ARIA into web content","authors":"Andy Brown, S. Harper","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461141","url":null,"abstract":"WAI-ARIA enables Web developers to make dynamic content accessible to users of assistive technologies (ATs) but there remain many sites on the Web that do not use it. Unfortunately the default behaviour of ATs when handling such pages is often sub-optimal, leaving users struggling to use the content. We present ACup: a flexible approach that injects JavaScript into the page to detect and classify any changes to the Document Object Model (DOM). These changes are then presented to the user using a WAI-ARIA live region that was injected when the page was loaded. The style of presentation varies according to the characteristics of each update (using rules previously bound to be effective) and can simply be changed, for example to test novel presentation approaches, or to apply a more fine-grained classification. This may be used to enable AT users to benefit more rapidly from advances in user-interface design.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134151889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient and effective information finding on small screen devices","authors":"Pauli P. Y. Lai","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461127","url":null,"abstract":"The use of handheld devices to access the World Wide Web has been increased significantly in recent years. It is time consuming to seek information when desktop-oriented webpages that contain tons of information are squeezed to be displayed on a handheld device. Therefore, presenting useful information in an efficient and effective way on pocket-sized mobile devices is very significant especially in the coming outbreak of mobile Internet era. We propose a content model to represent the relationships between semantic elements on webpages. From the model we generate different adaptations for people with different needs. Our objective is to discover author's intention of webpages by analyzing the relationships of semantic elements on webpages and to provide various adaptations for efficient and effective Web browsing and information seeking on pocket-sized mobile devices. Experiments show that the adapted versions improve efficiency and effectiveness for information seeking on pocket-sized mobile devices in general.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131013997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luz Rello, Clara Bayarri, A. Gorriz, R. Baeza-Yates, Saurabh Gupta, G. Kanvinde, Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Roberto Carlini, V. Topac
{"title":"DysWebxia 2.0!: more accessible text for people with dyslexia","authors":"Luz Rello, Clara Bayarri, A. Gorriz, R. Baeza-Yates, Saurabh Gupta, G. Kanvinde, Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Roberto Carlini, V. Topac","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461150","url":null,"abstract":"Even if dyslexia is neurological in origin, certain text modifications could make texts more accessible for people with dyslexia. We introduce DysWebxia 2.0, a model that integrates our findings from research conducted with this target group. It alters content and presentation of the text to make it more readable. We also present the current integrations of DysWebxia in different reading software applications.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121949473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pushing the Raman principle","authors":"C. Lewis","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461147","url":null,"abstract":"T V Raman has said, \"The way to think about the visual system is as a way to answer queries against a spatial database. If you have an alternate way to ask the queries and get the answers, you don't need the visual system.\" If we push this Raman Principle, where can it take us? This paper describes one application of the Raman Principle, the Noodle system for non-visual visual programming. It then offers some reflections on the larger implications of the Principle.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121808960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Molinaro, S. Borger, C. Cardonha, Diego S. Gallo, R. Herrmann, Ademir Ferreira, F. Koch, Priscilla Avegliano, Kelly Shigeno
{"title":"Smarter board: a community-oriented communication tool","authors":"M. Molinaro, S. Borger, C. Cardonha, Diego S. Gallo, R. Herrmann, Ademir Ferreira, F. Koch, Priscilla Avegliano, Kelly Shigeno","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461149","url":null,"abstract":"In this demo we present the Smarter Board, a platform designed to facilitate the creation of a community-focused social network, with a special focus on groups of people with disabilities. The communication is based on text messages, which makes the system easy to use and more accessible to communities where network connections are not well-developed and where the people do not have much experience with more advanced technological tools. The solution also provides a manage interface, through which administrators are able to mediate the messages and the users. We also implemented a matching procedure for the identification of related posts (e.g., it can check if there are compatible car ride offers and car ride requests) in order to make users aware of what is being posted and, even more important, adopt the technology.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124295409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walter S. Lasecki, C. Miller, R. Kushalnagar, Jeffrey P. Bigham
{"title":"Legion scribe: real-time captioning by the non-experts","authors":"Walter S. Lasecki, C. Miller, R. Kushalnagar, Jeffrey P. Bigham","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461151","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time captioning provides people who are deaf or hard of hearing access to aural speech in the classroom and at live events. The only reliable approach currently is to recruit a local or remote expert stenographer who is able to type at natural speaking rates, who charge more than $100 USD per hour and must be scheduled in advance. We introduce Legion Scribe (Scribe) that allows 3-5 ordinary people who can hear and type to collectively caption speech in real-time together. Each individual is unable to type at natural speaking rates, and so each is only asked to type part of what they hear. Scribe computationally stitches the partial captions together to form a final caption stream. We have shown that the accuracy of Scribe captions approaches those of a professional stenographer, while its latency and cost is dramatically lower.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116008293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using simultaneous audio sources to speed-up blind people's web scanning","authors":"J. Guerreiro","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461154","url":null,"abstract":"Sighted users are able to sift through a website quickly to find their information of interest. In contrast, screen readers present the information sequentially to blind users, which contrast with the visual presentation on screen that portrays more information at once. We believe that blind users will benefit from multiple simultaneous sound sources while scanning websites with several information items, in order to find their information of interest faster.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116670559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xabier Valencia, Myriam Arrue, J. Pérez, J. Abascal
{"title":"User individuality management in websites based on WAI-ARIA annotations and ontologies","authors":"Xabier Valencia, Myriam Arrue, J. Pérez, J. Abascal","doi":"10.1145/2461121.2461128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2461121.2461128","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe a system for adapting websites based on an annotation approach. The system adapts annotated websites according to the user characteristics. The core of the system is composed of a repository containing a comprehensive set of adaptation techniques. 99 techniques have been identified and classified, 48 of them have been fully implemented in the system. This wide range of implemented techniques provides the system with the necessary mechanisms for adapting diverse aspects of website interfaces, such as the content to display, the layout and the structure. The techniques to apply for a given user are inferred according to the information stored in an ontology. This defines the bases for associating user characteristics with the adaptation techniques to apply for specific interaction elements annotated in a website. An annotation language based on the roles and properties of WAI-ARIA has been elaborated. Therefore, any website annotated in this language can be adapted. This adaptation system has been applied to two different websites and adapted interfaces have been obtained for three different user groups.","PeriodicalId":339122,"journal":{"name":"International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129205683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}