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A specialised small Web browser with a voice-driven dialogue manager and a text-to-speech screen reader is presented. The Web browser was built from the GTK Web browser Dillo, which is a free software project in the terms of the GNU general public license. The new built-in screen reader is now triggered by pointing the mouse and uses the text-to-speech module for its output. A dialogue module together with a spoken-command input was also introduced into the browser. It can be used for navigation through a structure of common Web pages. The developed browser is primarily intended to be used with the new Web portal, exclusively dedicated to blind and visually impaired users. All the Web pages at the portal or at sites that are linked from this portal are expected to be arranged as common HTML/XML pages, which complies with the basic recommendations set by the Web Access Initiative.
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Dobrišek, S., Gros, J., Vesnicer, B., Mihelič, F., Pavešić, N. (2002). A Voice-Driven Web Browser for Blind People. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_65
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