User adaptable multimedia presentations for the World Wide Web
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
CUU '00 Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Accessible Interface Design: Adaptive Multimedia Information System (AMIS)
ICCHP '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Hearsay: enabling audio browsing on hypertext content
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Transforming flash to XML for accessibility evaluations
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Accessibility in rich internet applications: people and research
Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Although multimedia content containing streaming media is now widely used on the World Wide Web, there exist considerable difficulties for blind users to access such content, due to its dynamic changes, keyboard inoperability, and audio interference with the speech from assistive software. In particular, the third problem of audio interference is serious for blind users, since multimedia content often contains streaming media such as video and music which continuously play sounds, and thus they cannot hear the speech, which is masked by the loud media. In this paper, we propose a new accessible browser that can directly manipulate such multimedia content. In order to control Flash contents, our browser relies on a transcoding HTTP proxy to inject special scripts into the Flash content and then manipulates the embedded streaming media and sound objects via the injected scripts. By using our browser, users can easily turn the volume up or down, play, stop, or pause the streaming media with shortcut keys. Since the users do not need to focus on buttons or sliders for these operations, they can immediately stop or fade out the intrusive media when listening to speech from assistive software.