Augmenting social media accessibility

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Borrino;Marco Furini;Marco Roccetti

  • Affiliations:
  • University of P. Orientale, Alessandria, Italy;University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy;University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The popularity of social media is affecting society as they are changing the way communication, collaboration, interaction, and information are produced and consumed. A part of the society (e.g., the one more technologically advanced) takes advantage of social media, whereas another part of society (e.g., old or people with different abilities) is left out from the so-called social media revolution. In this paper we propose an architecture that aims at augmenting social media accessibility. The proposed architecture, named SOMFA (SOcial Media For All), finds, gets, transforms, and enriches social media contents for a presentation over TV sets, so that people with technological, sociological, or physical limitations may enjoy social media and may participate to the social media revolution.