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Accessibility commons: a metadata infrastructure for web accessibility

Authors:

Shinya Kawanaka,

Yevgen Borodin,

Jeffrey P. Bigham,

Hironobu Takagi,

Chieko AsakawaAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 153 - 160

https://doi.org/10.1145/1414471.1414500

Published: 13 October 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Research projects, assistive technology, and individuals all create metadata in order to improve Web accessibility for visually impaired users. However, since these projects are disconnected from one another, this metadata is isolated in separate tools, stored in disparate repositories, and represented in incompatible formats. Web accessibility could be greatly improved if these individual contributions were merged. An integration method will serve as the bridge between future academic research projects and end users, enabling new technologies to reach end users more quickly. Therefore we introduce Accessibility Commons, a common infrastructure to integrate, store, and share metadata designed to improve Web accessibility. We explore existing tools to show how the metadata that they produce could be integrated into this common infrastructure, we present the design decisions made in order to help ensure that our common repository will remain relevant in the future as new metadata is developed, and we discuss how the common infrastructure component facilitates our broader social approach to improving accessibility.

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Index Terms

Accessibility commons: a metadata infrastructure for web accessibility
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

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ISBN:9781595939760

DOI:10.1145/1414471

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The University of Manchester, UK
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