Trailblazer: enabling blind users to blaze trails through the web
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Hearsay: a new generation context-driven multi-modal assistive web browser
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
More than meets the eye: a survey of screen-reader browsing strategies
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
An intuitive accessible web automation user interface
Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
An interface agent for non-visual, accessible web automation
Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Accessible web automation interface: a user study
Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Predictive web automation assistant for people with vision impairments
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
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In recent years, the Web has become an ever more sophisticated and irreplaceable tool in our daily lives. While the visual Web has been advancing at a rapid pace, assistive technology has not been able to keep up, increasingly putting visually impaired users at a disadvantage. Web automation has the potential to bridge the accessibility divide between the ways blind and sighted people access the Web; specifically, it can enable blind people to accomplish quickly web browsing tasks that were previously slow, hard, or even impossible to complete. In this paper, we propose guidelines for the design of intuitive and accessible web automation that has the potential to increase accessibility and usability of web pages, reduce interaction time, and improve user browsing experience. Our findings and a preliminary user study demonstrate the feasibility of and emphasize the pressing need for truly accessible web automation technologies.