A flexible VXML interpreter for non-visual web access

  • Authors:
  • Yevgen Borodin

  • Affiliations:
  • 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

VoiceXML (VXML) is a W3C's standard for specifying interactive dialogs. It finds multiple uses in variousWeb applications. VXML can also be used in non-visual Web browsing. There is no suitable, complete, open-source, flexible VXML interpreter to process VXML dialogs. My project is focusing on developing a VXML interpreter, VXMLSurf, that will be fully compliant with VXML 2.0 specifications and geared toward accessing Web content. VXMLSurf implements a number of extended features that provide blind users with more control over interactive browsing dialogs. VXMLSurf is a part of the HearSay project for developing a non-visual Web browser. The goal of the project is to make the Web more accessible for blind people.