DysWebxia: a model to improve accessibility of the textual web for dyslexic users

  • Authors:
  • Luz Rello

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Tànger, Barcelona

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The goal of this research is to make textual content in the Web --especially in Spanish and English-- more accessible to people with dyslexia. The techniques that we will use to make the Web more accessible are Natural Language Processing (NLP) for its content (text) and Web design guidelines for its layout. To find out which solutions tackle better our purpose we will test a diverse set of Web pages examples. The main methodology to evaluate these examples will be eye tracking using regular and dyslexic students. In the case that our findings show that there are strategies that make the Web more accessible for dyslexic users, we plan to develop and application which includes such results, transforming a regular Web site into a dyslexic friendly Web site.