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An intuitive accessible web automation user interface

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Yevgen Borodin,

I. V. RamakrishnanAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '12: Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

Article No.: 41, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/2207016.2207054

Published: 16 April 2012 Publication History

Abstract

In recent years, the Web has become an ever more sophisticated and irreplaceable tool in our daily lives. While the visual Web has advanced at a rapid pace, assistive technology has not been able to keep up, increasingly putting visually impaired users at a disadvantage. Web automation has the potential to bridge the accessibility divide between the ways blind and sighted people access the Web; specifically, it can enable blind people to accomplish web browsing tasks that were previously slow, hard, or even impossible to achieve. In this paper, we propose and evaluate an intuitive and accessible web automation interface. We validate the design in a Wizard-of-Oz user study with visually-impaired subjects and show that the proposed approach has the potential to significantly increase accessibility and usability of web pages, reduce interaction time, and increase user satisfaction. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of and emphasize the pressing need for truly accessible web automation technologies.

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Raufi BFerati MZenuni XAjdari JIsmaili F(2015)Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Web Accessibility for the Blind and Visually ImpairedProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.214195(1999-2007)Online publication date: Jul-2015
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Index Terms

An intuitive accessible web automation user interface
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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W4A '12: Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

April 2012

189 pages

ISBN:9781450310192

DOI:10.1145/2207016

General Chairs:
Markel Vigo
University of Manchester, UK
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Julio Abascal
University of the Basque Country, Spain
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Google
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University of Bologna, Italy

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Barbosa NHayes JKaushik SWang Y(2022)“Every Website Is a Puzzle!”: Facilitating Access to Common Website Features for People with Visual ImpairmentsACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/351903215:3(1-35)Online publication date: 8-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3519032
Blanck P(2015)eQuality: Web Accessibility by People With Cognitive DisabilitiesInclusion10.1352/2326-6988-3.2.753:2(75-91)Online publication date: Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-3.2.75
Raufi BFerati MZenuni XAjdari JIsmaili F(2015)Methods and Techniques of Adaptive Web Accessibility for the Blind and Visually ImpairedProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.214195(1999-2007)Online publication date: Jul-2015
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.06.214
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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Puzis YHuenerfauth MKurniawan S(2012)Accessible web automation interfaceProceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility10.1145/2384916.2384999(291-292)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2012
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