Is Wikipedia usable for the blind?

  • Authors:
  • Marina Buzzi;Barbara Leporini

  • Affiliations:
  • IIT-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy;ISTI-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Today wikis are becoming increasingly widespread, and offer great benefits in a variety of collaborative environments. Therefore, to be universally valuable, wiki systems should be easy to use for anyone, regardless of ability. This paper describes obstacles that a blind user may encounter when interacting via screen reader with Wikipedia, and offers some suggestions for improving usability.