Audio enriched links: web page previews for blind users

Authors:
Peter Parente
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Venue:
Assets '04 Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Audio Enriched Links provide previews of linked web pages to users with visual impairments. Before a user follows a hyperlink, the Audio Enriched Links software presents a spoken summary of the next page including its title, its relation to the current page, statistics about its content, and some highlights from its content. We believe that such a summary may be a useful surrogate for a full web page, and help users with visual impairments decide whether or not to spend time visiting a linked page. In this paper, we present some motivation for the Audio Enriched Links project. We describe the design and implementation of the current software prototype, and discuss the results of an initial evaluation involving four participants. We conclude with some implications of this work and directions for future research.