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Web accessibility for low bandwidth input

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Jennifer Mankoff,

Melody MooreAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '02: Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 17 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/638249.638255

Published: 08 July 2002 Publication History

Abstract

One of the first, most common, and most useful applications that today's computer users access is the World Wide Web (web). One population of users for whom the web is especially important is those with motor disabilities, because it may enable them to do things that they might not otherwise be able to do: shopping; getting an education; running a business. This is particularly important for low bandwidth users: users with such limited motor and speech that they can only produce one or two signals when communicating with a computer. We present requirements for low bandwidth web accessibility, and two tools that address these requirements. The first is a modified web browser, the second a proxy that modifies HTML. Both work without requiring web page authors to modify their pages.

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Web accessibility for low bandwidth input
1. Information systems
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 '02: Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

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DOI:10.1145/638249

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