An Accessible Media Player as a User Agent for the Web

Authors:
A. Mourouzis;N. Partarakis;C. Doulgeraki;C. Galanakis;C. Stephanidis
Affiliations:
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, , Heraklion, Greece GR-70013;Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, , Heraklion, Greece GR-70013;Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, , Heraklion, Greece GR-70013;Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, , Heraklion, Greece GR-70013;Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) Institute of Computer Science, , Heraklion, Greece GR-70013 and Department of Computer Science, University of Crete,
Venue:
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Year:
2008

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This paper presents webLection,a tool that aims at increasing the uptake of the Web by a variety of potential users. With WebLectionWeb content is locally rendered into standard audio formats, and, ultimately, manipulated just like music employing the playing listbehaviour as an intuitive interaction metaphor. Although webLectionoriginates from research for blind Web users, significant benefits emerge for other types users too, including Web developers, since it can be used, on the one hand, to easily transform and make Web content available through its audio equivalent, and on the other hand to inspect the accessibility and usability of Web pages for users of screen readers.