Accessibility evaluation of websites using screen reader

Sandhya, Sankaran; Devi, K. A. Sumithra

doi:10.1109/nwesp.2011.6088201

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“…The text to speech software is embedded with the hardware which converts the displayed text into speech in the corresponding language. 3,4 Another device called the Finger Reader also helps the blind in the reading of texts from the printed material. This is a device worn on the finger.…”

Section: Literature Surveymentioning

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Survey on Smart Reader for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI)

Geetha¹,

Sheethal²,

Sindhu³

et al. 2019

IJST

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Objectives: To make a survey on Smart readers for Blind and visually impaired people and propose a suitable approach. Methods analysis: Visually impaired people need special systems like Braille for reading and writing for the blind. They also find it difficult to use the latest gadgets like smartphones or computers unless some specific modification is done to these devices which will assist them. The development of smart devices will significantly enhance their livelihood. Various smart devices have been developed where Optical Character Recognition and Text to Speech is used to capture the written or printed text and convert it into audio signals. There are many drawbacks to all these devices. Here we propose a new Smart Reader which will overcome some of these drawbacks. Findings/application: This system aims to develop costeffective assistive technologies for blind people and provide a greater degree of independence in their daily activities. The main advantage of this research is to detect the text and give the voice output for visually impaired. It will help the blind to read and acquire knowledge from all the printed material without converting the same into Braille format.

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Section: Literature Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey on Smart Reader for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI)

Geetha¹,

Sheethal²,

Sindhu³

et al. 2019

IJST

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“…It is used to verbalize everything on the screen into a computerized voice that is spoken out loud. The screen reader reads everything in the Website from top to bottom, and from left to right [12]. It also transforms graphical user interface (GUI) into an audio interface and provides keyboard shortcuts or hot keys that allow navigation of the content to be rendered to the screen in a non-visual way [2].…”

Section: A Assistive Technologies To Improve Web Accessibility For Vmentioning

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Synchronizing audio and haptic feedback to read webpage

Hashim

Mokhtahir

2014

2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCOINS)

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The limitations of a Website's accessibility in terms of its text attributes representation in web pages hinder the visually impaired users from having a comprehensive understanding of the web content. Current assistive technology such as screen reader and refreshable Braille device are unable to represent this non-textual attributes to the visually impaired. This paper presents a study that examines the significance of text attributes to support Web accessibility and improve understanding of the content. It was hypothesized that the synchronization of audio and haptic feedbacks could improve Web accessibility through text attributes identification; thus, providing comprehensive understanding of the webpage. The study involves development of a prototype system that synchronizes audio and haptic to read webpage and represents text attributes. A mixture of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods was adopted. Interviews with the visually impaired users were conducted to gather their requirements for the prototype. A user testing involving those who suffer from high degree of visual impairment was carried out to evaluate the prototype. B The findings show significant improvement in web browsing performance and text attributes identification using the prototype as compared to the existing screen reader.

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