Facilita: helping the reading of texts available on the web

Authors:
Willian Massami Watanabe;Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes;Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo;Sandra Maria Aluísio
Affiliations:
Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Venue:
WebMedia '09 Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Although there are recently multiple ways of delivering media on the web, most web contents are still mainly presented in the textual form. The heavy use of texts pose an accessibility barrier to those who do not read fluently because of both the length and linguistic complexity of the written texts. To deal with that barrier, this paper presents the Facilita, an assistive technology to help lower literacy users to comprehend web applications' textual content. Facilita automaticallygenerates accessible content from web pages, using syntactic simplication and summarization techniques. It is also described the use of technologies aiming at keeping users interactions simple, since lower literacy users, frequently, also show lower computer skills.