Proxy Service to Contextualize Web Browsing for the Visually Impaired

Authors:
Najd A. Al-Mouh;Hend S. Al-Khalifa;AbdulMalik S. Al-Salman
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Information Technology Department, King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Computer Science Department, King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Venue:
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Year:
2013

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Abstract

According to World Health Organization (WHO), in June, 2012 there were 285 million Visually Impaired People (VIP) around the world. Unfortunately, many face difficulties when browsing and getting information from the Internet especially when using traditional methods. In our paper, we aim at taking advantage of context-aware computing to assist VIP with contextualized web pages. We propose an integrable proxy service to minimize VIP's browsing problems and make it more effective. This service can reorganize the requested Web page content according to the user's preferences, so screen readers would not read content that is not of interest to the user. The result of the proxy was evaluated using two approaches: (1) manual inspection and (2) user testing. In the first experiment, 64% of the 50 converted websites got satisfactory results. In the second experiment, five VIP have tested the output of our service and expressed their general satisfaction with it.