Fast web by using updated content extraction and a bookmark facility

Abstract

This paper describes improved methods of web access for the visually impaired. Some A few web access systems for the visually impaired have already been developed and are widely used. The improvements described in this paper are in two areas. The first is a fastest mean of jumping from the current sentence position into desired sentence position within web pages. The second is a facility for searching for sentences that have been updated since a previous viewing. User testing was carried out, and the two facilities were found to reduce not only the web page access time but also the user's mental workload.

Semantic bookmarking for non-visual web access

“…The primary problem with fast-forwarding was the effort required to reach the desired position in the text since speeding up the audio can result in going beyond or falling short of that position. More recently, [7] describes a method for bookmarking sentences in Web pages and searching for updated content in a page via these bookmarks. However, these bookmarks are built from the sequence of HTML tags in the page.…”

“…This problem of creating bookmarks and retrieving information with them, via assistive Web browsing tools, for individuals with visual impairments has been pioneered in [7,19]. By and large these works propose syntax-driven solutions for this problem.…”

Web accessibility for low bandwidth input

“…A significant body of work in web page accessibility exists, including guidelines for accessibility [36], automatic evaluation tools [3], and transformations that help disabled users to access web pages [26,30,17,2,37,8,14,33,13]. However, this work was generally done with vision impairments in mind, and assumes the use of a mouse and keyboard, or at least a keyboard.…”