Abstract:
The Internet offers new possibilities to the access of information, but sometimes the design
of Web pages obstructs the contents making them inaccessible to everybody, especialIy for
those people with visual disabilities. The problem has several sides. On one hand, the
inaccessible design of the pages. On the other hand, most of the browsers used to browse
the net are thought to be managed by users without visual disabilities. Although there
are tools to help in the right design of Web pages or in the interpretation of Web pages
for people with visual handicaps, to our knowledge there is not an integrated tool useful
for both, the designers and the visually handicapped users. Our research group has developed
a tool called KAI (Kit for the Accessibility to the Internet). KAI is based on two main
pillars: a new markup language with accessibility features called Blind Markup Language
(BML) and WebTouch, a multimodal browser taking blind people into special consideration.
In this paper we focus on WebTouch and its two modalities for surfing the Web: voice and tactile kills.
Conference: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) 2003
Language: English
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