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Accessing Web Based Documents through a Tree Structural Interface

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2004)

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In addition to the intrinsic accessibility difficulties posed by a graphical user interface for blind web users, specific usability penalties arise from the serial nature of blind adapted interfaces (speech, braille). We propose an approach to the design of a browser tailored for blind users which may mitigate some of these difficulties. We suggest this may be achieved through maximal exploitation of structural HTML mark-up to support highly dynamic and interactive user control of content rendering.

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  1. School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Esmond Walshe & Barry McMullin

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Association BrailleNet, 9, quai Saint Bernard, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    Dominique Burger

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Walshe, E., McMullin, B. (2004). Accessing Web Based Documents through a Tree Structural Interface. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_81

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