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Overcoming the new accessibility challenges using the sweet framework

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Gollapudi Vrj Sai Prasad,

Venkatesh ChoppellaAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '14: Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference

Article No.: 22, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/2596695.2596711

Published: 07 April 2014 Publication History

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For many, Accessibility is about disability and aiding the disabled user. We argue for a much broader definition: One that is inclusive of not only the disabled and the technologically deprived, but also the able-bodied, who may still be facing linguistic, socio-cultural, cognitive type barriers. Further, we discuss how to overcome this new broad set of barriers (which have elsewhere been called New Accessibility). Modification of original static content to new target content -- a technique of Renarration -- is modeled as a webpage transformation. This is operationally realized as "Sweets". Sweets are external meta data used for transformation of the web page. They are collaboratively and socially produced either by humans or human triggered Sweet based web applications. The entire web architecture featuring Sweets, their repositories and their web applications is explained and shared as a potential mechanism for overcoming New Accessibility barriers. Two web applications, Alipi and Mural Annotation for IDH, are finally showcased to highlight that Sweets based architecture does indeed help in facing the barriers of New Accessibility.

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