Voice Browsing Approach to E-Business Access: A Blind’s Perspective

Abstract

Information accessibility on World Wide Web (WWW) still remains to be a complex issue for blind users as majority of websites are invaded by contents, both non-visual (audio) and visual (video & images). Accessibility measures in terms of a usable and blind-friendly website should be made available to blind users. A particular area that can be improved on is the e-Business segment for blinds. Easily-accessible, e-Business platforms could further promote entrepreneurship practices through the development of blind-friendly features such as voice. In current study, we investigated the existing difficulties (such as inconsistent webpage structure, incompetent voice recognition engines and use of long sentences as commands, etc) to access the web-content and suggested a different (numeric hotlist) approach, in order to make the web more accessible, exclusively for blinds.

Efficient Voice Integrated Browser Using Naïve Approach

“…The impacts of voice enabled systems have yet to be revealed but speech-enabled mobile phones, navigational systems, and automobiles might make a distinct contribution towards blind people's life. Although future would certainly bring a lot of technological advancements but the pace of development, in this particular area (voice enabled systems), remains to be slow [4].…”