Web access for elderly citizens

  • Authors:
  • Vicki L. Hanson

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY

  • Venue:
  • WUAUC'01 Proceedings of the 2001 EC/NSF workshop on Universal accessibility of ubiquitous computing: providing for the elderly
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

With elderly citizens becoming an increasingly large proportion of the population in many countries, social as well as economic considerations suggest that they must be considered in the development of current and future technologies. This paper addresses issues of Internet access, and discusses a research project designed to make the web more usable by elderly citizens. This project uses a proxy server to transcode web pages according to user-specified preferences and capabilities. Users access web pages as usual, with no specialized hardware required.