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SADIe: semantic annotation for accessibility

Authors:

Sean Bechhofer,

Darren LunnAuthors Info & Claims

ISWC'06: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web

Pages 101 - 115

https://doi.org/10.1007/11926078_8

Published: 05 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Visually impaired users are hindered in their efforts to access the largest repository of electronic information in the world – the World Wide Web (Web). The web is visually-centric with regard to presentation and information order / layout, this can (and does) hinder users who need presentation-agnostic access to information. Transcoding can help to make information more accessible via a restructuring of pages. We describe an approach based on annotation of web pages, encoding semantic information that can then be used by tools in order to manipulate and present web pages in a form that provides easier access to content. Annotations are made directly to style sheet information, allowing the annotation of large numbers of similar pages with little effort.

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ISWC'06: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web

November 2006

1001 pages

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Editors:
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Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), Chicago, IL
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Stefan Decker
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), Galway, IL, Ireland
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Dean Allemang
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, TopQuadrant, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), Galway, VA, Ireland
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Chris Preist
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, HP Laboratories, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), Bristol, VA, UK
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