User interface of a Home Page Reader
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Transcoding proxy for nonvisual web access
Assets '00 Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Annotation-based transcoding for nonvisual web access
Assets '00 Proceedings of the fourth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Accordion summarization for end-game browsing on PDAs and cellular phones
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The state of the art in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Detecting web page structure for adaptive viewing on small form factor devices
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Presenting HTML Structure in Audio: User Satisfaction with Audio Hypertext
Presenting HTML Structure in Audio: User Satisfaction with Audio Hypertext
Using link analysis to improve layout on mobile devices
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Tension, what tension?: Website accessibility and visual design
W4A '04 Proceedings of the 2004 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A)
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
Intermediary-based transcoding framework
IBM Systems Journal
DANTE: annotation and transformation of web pages for visually impaired users
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Extracting content from accessible web pages
W4A '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)
W4A '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)
W4A '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)
The relationship between accessibility and usability of websites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating DANTE: Semantic transcoding for visually disabled users
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Observing Sara: a case study of a blind person's interactions with technology
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
AxsJAX: a talking translation bot using google IM: bringing web-2.0 applications to life
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
A user evaluation of the SADIe transcoder
Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Combining SADIe and AxsJAX to improve the accessibility of web content
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
COHSE: dynamic linking of web resources
COHSE: dynamic linking of web resources
More than meets the eye: a survey of screen-reader browsing strategies
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
Coping tactics employed by visually disabled users on the web
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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The World Wide Web is a predominantly visual media for presenting and disseminating information. As such, visually impaired users, who access content through audio interaction, are hindered as the Web is not designed with their needs in mind. To compensate for this, visually impaired users develop behavioral strategies to cope when access to the content becomes challenging. While tools exist to aid visually impaired users in accessing the Web, they tend to focus on adapting content to meet the needs of the device rather than the user. Therefore, to further improve Web access an understanding of the behavioral strategies users employ is required. To achieve this, studies of eleven visually impaired Web users were conducted. The data from these sessions were analyzed to develop a framework for identifying strategies that users may employ when they face difficulties accessing the content. Using data for twenty visually impaired users obtained from an independent study, the framework was validated and shown to be flexible and accurate enough to be applicable to multiple data sources. An analysis of the coping strategies identified from the framework revealed six abstract patterns of coping. These patterns were used as the basis for developing behavior-driven transcoding that transformed static Web documents into interactive content by allowing users to navigate between key elements of the page through a consistent set of key presses. Results obtained from a user evaluation of the transcoding support the use of behavior-driven transcoding as a mechanism for improving access to Web content when compared to existing transcoding techniques. This result allows the coping strategies framework to be used as a foundation for further understanding of the strategies visually impaired users employ on Web sites and the transformations required to allow the Web to be accessible to those users.