Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Generic text summarization using relevance measure and latent semantic analysis
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization
Web Document Summarisation: A Task-oriented Evaluation
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Enhanced web document summarization using hyperlinks
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Generating natural language summaries from multiple on-line sources
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on natural language generation
Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers
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Augmenting the mobility of profoundly blind web travellers
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Special issue: Scholarly hypermedia
Making multimedia content accessible for screen reader users
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Using a CMS to create fully accessible websites
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
WebAnywhere: a screen reader on-the-go
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Towards bridging the accessibility needs of people with disabilities and the ageing community
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Analysis of navigation behaviour of blind users using Browsing Shortcuts
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Web Accessibility
Daisy 3: A Standard for Accessible Multimedia Books
IEEE MultiMedia
Disability Standards for Multimedia on the Web
IEEE MultiMedia
Age and web access: the next generation
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Hera-FFX: a Firefox add-on for semi-automatic web accessibility evaluation
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
Guideline aggregation: web accessibility evaluation for older users
Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)
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Searching for relevant information on the web is an important aspect of distance learning. This activity is a challenge for visually impaired distance learners. While sighted people have the ability to filter information in a fast and non sequential way, blind persons rely on tools that process the information in a sequential way. Learning is slowed by screen readers which do not interact well with web pages. This paper introduces WAVES, a tool for the fast retrieval of information in a web page for blind and visually impaired people. The paper describes the WAVES prototype, a system that performs a page restructuring of webpages. The system analyzes webpages, identifies elements of interests from a webpage, evaluates their importance by using semantic information and visual cues, sorts them by importance and uses them to restructure the webpage so that data from the original webpage are presented to the reader in a concise format. A preliminary evaluation test of the prototype system has been performed with a sample set of users. The results of the preliminary test show an increase in speed and accuracy when the WAVES system has been used.