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Guidelines for an accessible web automation interface

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I. V. RamakrishnanAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 249 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/2049536.2049591

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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In recent years, the Web has become an ever more sophisticated and irreplaceable tool in our daily lives. While the visual Web has been advancing at a rapid pace, assistive technology has not been able to keep up, increasingly putting visually impaired users at a disadvantage. Web automation has the potential to bridge the accessibility divide between the ways blind and sighted people access the Web; specifically, it can enable blind people to accomplish quickly web browsing tasks that were previously slow, hard, or even impossible to complete. In this paper, we propose guidelines for the design of intuitive and accessible web automation that has the potential to increase accessibility and usability of web pages, reduce interaction time, and improve user browsing experience. Our findings and a preliminary user study demonstrate the feasibility of and emphasize the pressing need for truly accessible web automation technologies.

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Guidelines for an accessible web automation interface
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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ASSETS '11: The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2011

348 pages

ISBN:9781450309202

DOI:10.1145/2049536

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Kathleen F. McCoy
University of Delaware, USA
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