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Accessible web automation interface: a user study

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Yury PuzisAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 291 - 292

https://doi.org/10.1145/2384916.2384999

Published: 22 October 2012 Publication History

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With the growth of the Web as a platform for performing many useful daily tasks, such as shopping and paying bills, and as an important vehicle for doing business, the Web's potential to improve the quality of life of blind and low-vision users is greater than ever. However, the growth of sophistication of Web applications continues to outpace the capabilities of tools that help make the Web more accessible. Web automation has the potential to bridge the divide between the ways visually impaired users and sighted users access the Web, and enable visually impaired users to breeze through Web browsing tasks that beforehand were slow, hard, or even impossible to achieve. Typical automation interfaces require that the user record a macro, a useful sequence of browsing steps, so that these steps can be replayed in the future. In this paper, I present the results of evaluation of two web automation user interfaces that enable web automation without having to record macros. The experiments suggest that the approach has the potential to significantly increase accessibility and usability of web pages by reducing interaction time, and by enhancing user experience.

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Accessible web automation interface: a user study
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2012

321 pages

ISBN:9781450313216

DOI:10.1145/2384916

General Chair:
Matt Huenerfauth
City University of New York, USA
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Sri Kurniawan
University of California Santa Cruz, USA

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Published: 22 October 2012

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Ashok VBillah SBorodin YRamakrishnan IPapadopoulos GSamaras GWeibelzahl SJannach DSantos O(2019)Auto-Suggesting Browsing Actions for Personalized Web Screen ReadingProceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization10.1145/3320435.3320460(252-260)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2019
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Puzis YBorodin YPuzis RRamakrishnan ISchwabe DAlmeida VGlaser HBaeza-Yates RMoon S(2013)Predictive web automation assistant for people with vision impairmentsProceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web10.1145/2488388.2488478(1031-1040)Online publication date: 13-May-2013
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