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Towards behaviour-driven transcoding of web content through an analysis of user coping strategies

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Darren Lunn is a research associate at the University of Manchester, working in the Web Ergonomics Lab. Darren completed his PhD in 2009 at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Simon Harper and Sean Bechhofer. His PhD thesis was entitled Towards Behaviour-Driven Transcoding of Web Content Through an Analysis of User Coping Strategies where a transcoding engine was developed that modified Web content based on annotations of the Cascading Style Sheets associated with the page. This was coupled with a framework that was developed to allow strategies to be identified that visually impaired users employed to overcome Web content that was difficult to interact with. This framework was used to develop the adaptations incorporated into the transcoding engine and allowed easier access to Web content for visually impaired users. A complete copy of the thesis can be found at: http://wel-eprints.cs.manchester.ac.uk/127/.

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cover image ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter  Volume 2011, Issue Spring
Spring 2011
32 pages
ISSN:1931-1745
EISSN:1931-1435
DOI:10.1145/1942800
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Published: 01 April 2011
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