Improving non-visual web access using context

Authors:
Jalal Mahmud;Yevgen Borodin;Dipanjan Das;I. V. Ramakrishnan
Affiliations:
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Year:
2006

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Abstract

To browse the Web, blind people have to use screen readers, which process pages sequentially, making browsing timeconsuming. We present a prototype system, CSurf, which provides all features of a regular screen reader, but when a user follows a link, CSurf captures the context of the link and uses it to identify relevant information on the next page. CSurf rearranges the content of the next page, so, that the relevant information is read out first. A series experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of CSurf.