User interface of a Home Page Reader
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Record-boundary discovery in Web documents
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Csurf: a context-driven non-visual web-browser
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
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Visually disabled individuals use screen readers to browse the Web. Sequential processing of screen readers makes Web browsing time-consuming and strenuous. The problem is further exacerbated when conducting Web transactions (e.g. buying books, paying utility bills, etc.), which typically involve a number of steps spanning several pages. Thus browsing becomes fatigue inducing and causes significant information overload. But usually one needs only small segments of Web pages for completing a Web transaction. Identifying and presenting such segments from Web pages can reduce information overload. An interesting idea is to use context surrounding a link to identify relevant information on the next Web page. I describe how context analysis coupled with Web content analysis can identify relevant content segments. Preliminary results based on my system incorporating this idea, show a lot of promise in combating the information overload problem encountered by visually disabled individuals when they do transactions over the Web.