Enhancing web accessibility by implementing context aware proxy

Al-Mouh, Najd A.; Al‐Khalifa, Hend S.

doi:10.1108/ijwis-11-2015-0037

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“…The importance of Web accessibility has been realized since the late 1990s in the research community resulting in several efforts (Abascal et al, 2019;Al-Mouh and Al-Khalifa, 2016;Chandrashekar and McCardle, 2020;Firmenich et al, 2019;Jeevithashree et al, 2019), the most important of which are presented in this section. A detailed survey by Schrepp (2006) and Ntoa et al (2014) on the accessibility of current websites for both mouse and keyboard users has been performed.…”

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“…Several initiatives such as development of Web accessibility guidelines, tools and technologies have been undertaken to make the Web usable for people with different disabilities (Chandrashekar and McCardle, 2020;Abascal et al, 2019) and developing macros to enable mobile based accessibility (Rodrigues, 2015). However, only a handful of them are aimed at people with SSMI (Al-Mouh and Al-Khalifa, 2016;Firmenich et al, 2019;Jeevithashree et al, 2019). These tools and techniques either assumes limited use of mouse and keyboard (Hermsdorf et al, 1998;Huang and Sundaresan, 2000;Sitbon et al, 2014;Sanchez-Gordon and Luj an-Mora, 2020) or they are not very efficient in terms of accessing the Web contents.…”

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A web browsing interface for people with severe speech and motor impairment

Sinha

Dasgupta

2021

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Purpose The Web has become an indispensable medium used by people across the world for education, information, entertainment, social interaction as well as for various daily activities involving shopping and employment-related tasks. It is therefore becoming increasingly essential that the Web must be accessible to all people to provide equal access and equal opportunity. This is specifically more important for people with various kind of disabilities. Several initiatives such as development of Web accessibility guidelines, tools and technologies have been undertaken to make the Web usable for people with different disabilities. However, only a handful of them are aimed at people with Severe Speech and Motor Impairment (SSMI). This paper aims to present a Web browsing interface for people with severe speech and motor impairment. Design/methodology/approach The browser allows easy dissemination of information through World Wide Web for people with SSMI. The browser is augmented with both automatic as well as manual scanning mechanisms through which a motor disorder person can access the browser graphical user interface (GUI). Further, the browser provides an intelligent content scanning mechanism through which the Web contents can be accessed with less time and cognitive effort. Along with the desktop version, WebSanyog is successfully ported on Android-based tablets to make the system portable. Findings The system has been exhaustively field tested by people with SSMI. The browser has been deployed at the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy (IICP), Kolkata. The performance of the browser has been measured in terms of three parameters: The Task execution time (TET); Error rates analysis (ER); and Overall usability score by the subject. The evaluation results suggests that the proposed Web browsing interface is effective in terms of task execution time, cognitive effort and overall user satisfaction. Originality/value The browser GUI is integrated with an automatic scanning mechanism as an alternate way to access and navigate through Web pages, instead of using keyboard and mouse. The browser provides novel content access mechanisms that makes navigating through Web page contents like links, images and embedded videos easier and faster. To facilitate text entry, the browser provides two different options, namely, the predictive virtual scanning keyboard and a novel icon-based query entry scheme that allows generating search queries through the selection of multiple icons.

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A web browsing interface for people with severe speech and motor impairment

Sinha

Dasgupta

2021

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“…Since websites play a crucial role, various studies examine corporate websites from different perspectives such as; website usability (Huang and Cappel, 2012), web based public relations (Kim et al, 2010b), website design (Jones and DeGrow, 2011;Jones, 2015), website accessibility (Al-Mouh and Al-Khalifa, 2016;Loiacono et al, 2009;Romano, 2002), meeting media/journalist needs (Coy, 2003), characteristics of e-commerce user-interface (Zhao et al, 2006), marketing communications (Perry and Bodkin, 2002), sustainable information published in websites (Kunz and Ratliff, 2014), e-recruiting for human resources (Lee, 2005;Young and Foot, 2005), home page content and purpose (Liu et al, 1997), privacy policies (Liu and Arnett, 2002), environmental responsibility (Kim et al, 2010a), corporate social responsibility (Smith and Alexander, 2013;Tang et al, 2015), brand equity (Argyriou et al, 2006), corporate identity communication (Mohammed et al, 2016) and systems offering high quality information (Edelweis et al, 2011). Besides only a few studies focus on strategic positioning via websites.…”

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Compatibility of Firm Positioning Strategy and Website Content: Highest R&D Spending Firms in Turkey

Kesici¹,

Nazlı²,

Turhan³

2017

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

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Corporate websites are essential platforms through which firms introduce their goods and services on B2B and B2C level, express financial information for the stakeholders and share corporate values, purposes and activities. Due to its facilities, websites take part in firm positioning strategy. Accordingly this study aims to understand the innovation oriented positioning through corporate websites. The method applied in this study has been adapted from the 2QCV2Q Model developed by Mich and Franch (2000) to evaluate websites and top 30 firms with the highest Research and Development expenditures listed in Turkishtime (2015) have been analyzed. Within this context, this study presents a revised and updated method for the assessments of websites through positioning strategy framework. Findings indicate no direct relationship between website evaluation and R&D expenditure, though some common weaknesses have been put forward, such as information about management of the firms. Besides, publicly traded firms are recognized to facilitate websites more efficiently than non-publicly traded firms. Study contribute to both academia and practitioners as putting forward a new approach for 2QCV2Q Model and indicating the similarities and differences among the corporate websites through positioning perspective.

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“…Esta solução é baseada em um algoritmo que analisa o conteúdo HTML das páginas Web, compara os elementos da página com os elementos das páginas visitadas anteriormente e com os elementos de um banco de dados compartilhado, com objetivo de filtrar informações que não são necessárias aos usuários do leitor de tela. AL-MOUH et al (2016) apresentaram um serviço de proxy que adapta as páginas Web e as apresenta de uma forma usável aos usuários com deficiência visual. O proxy VIPaware apresenta um serviço que recupera as principais informações a partir de qualquer página da Web, analisa o HTML da página solicitada e cria um DOM (Document Object Model), que é tratado para eliminar elementos inacessíveis.…”

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Enhancing web accessibility by implementing context aware proxy

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A web browsing interface for people with severe speech and motor impairment

A web browsing interface for people with severe speech and motor impairment

Compatibility of Firm Positioning Strategy and Website Content: Highest R&D Spending Firms in Turkey

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