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Leveraging crowds and clouds: towards an intercommunity approach to improving web accessibility

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This paper discusses our research project for using an intercommunity approach to combine technical web solutions from many online communities into one tool that can provide simplified web pages to users with cognitive disabilities who find traditional websites difficult to use. We discuss our current progress, future directions, and benefits to the accessibility community as a whole.

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    cover image ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
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    January 2012
    51 pages
    ISSN:1558-2337
    EISSN:1558-1187
    DOI:10.1145/2140446
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