Emacspeak---direct speech access

Raman, T. V.

doi:10.1145/228347.228354

Cited by 31 publications

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“…The desire to deliver user-centric information access led to the binding of mobile user interfaces to Web content, another example of specialized browsing. 29, 33 A user interface designed for a large display is inappropriate for viewing on small-screen devices like cellphones and PDAs. The distributed nature of Web applications-and consequent separation of the user interface-enabled Web developers to bind specialized mobile user interfaces.…”

Section: User-centric Accessmentioning

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Toward 2 ^W , beyond web 2.0

Raman

2009

Commun. ACM

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Section: User-centric Accessmentioning

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Raman

2009

Commun. ACM

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“…Support for notification via live regions goes one step further by enabling rich auditory user interfaces to Web applications in a form that has been traditionally difficult to achieve - [3].…”

Section: W4a2008 -Communicationmentioning

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AxsJAX: a talking translation bot using google IM

Chen

Raman

2008

Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

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Web-2.0 applications turn static Web documents into dynamic user interfaces. They epitomize the final realization of the vision "The Document Is The Interface!". This transition from static Web pages to interactive Web applications also requires the introduction of a fresh set of innovations to how such applications are accessed in conjunction with adaptive technologies.Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) breathes life into static Web pages. ARIA live regions helps bring such interaction to life when used in conjunction with adaptive technologies such as screenreaders and self-voicing browsers. This paper introduces the motivation behind live regions in ARIA, and describes how this support can be used to enhance the user interaction provided by Google Talk -an instant-messaging client that is integrated into the GMail Web interface. We describe the interaction model as it is surfaced to the end-user, and show how the introduction of live regions makes all aspects of the resulting UI usable with adaptive technologies.Web-2.0 applications -especially mashups -excel at creating end-user solutions that are greater than the sum of their individual building blocks. We demonstrate this by bringing together Google Talk, Live Regions and Natural Language translation by demonstrating a multi-lingual talking translation interface that is the result of speech-enabling these applications using the Google AxsJAX framework.

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“…Profoundly visually impaired users usually access the Web using screenreaders [8] or specialized browsers [1,[26][27][28]. There are many sources which state the difficulty that such users have using the Web via tools such as screenreaders.…”

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How people use presentation to search for a link: expanding the understanding of accessibility on the Web

Jay

Stevens

Glencross

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Univ Access Inf Soc

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It is well known that many Web pages are difficult to use for visually disabled people. Without access to a rich visual display, the intended structure and organisation of the page is obscured. To fully understand what is missing from the experience of visually disabled users, it is pertinent to ask how the presentation of Web pages on a standard display makes them easier for sighted people to use. This paper reports on an exploratory eye tracking study that addresses this issue by investigating how sighted readers use the presentation of the BBC News Web page to search for a link. The standard page presentation is compared with a ''text-only'' version, demonstrating both qualitatively and quantitatively that the removal of the intended presentation alters ''reading'' behaviours. The demonstration that the presentation of information assists task completion suggests that it should be re-introduced to non-visual presentations if the Web is to become more accessible. The conducted study also explored the extent to which algorithms that generate maps of what is perceptually salient on a page match the gaze data recorded in the eye tracking study. The correspondence between a page's presentation, knowledge of what is visually salient, and how people use these features to complete a task might offer an opportunity to re-model a Web page to maximise access to its most important parts.

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Emacspeak---direct speech access

Cited by 31 publications

References 4 publications

Toward 2 ^W , beyond web 2.0

Toward 2 ^W , beyond web 2.0

AxsJAX: a talking translation bot using google IM

How people use presentation to search for a link: expanding the understanding of accessibility on the Web

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Cited by 31 publications

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AxsJAX: a talking translation bot using google IM

How people use presentation to search for a link: expanding the understanding of accessibility on the Web

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