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Abstract | ||
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The Web has turned out to be an interactive and complex information seeking environment where apart from text, layout and visual cues play a significant role in its efficient use. In this paper we present a semantic web based framework for communicating this visual meta-information to blind users who miss it. Based on annotations of web pages blind users are given a set of browsing shortcuts within a web page and this way they can move easily to the desired point of the page. In addition to this mechanism we enhanced these annotations with spatial information and we provide blind users with a spatially enriched variation of the browsing shortcuts mechanism. To test its effects on web browsing of blind users we conducted an experiment with 15 users participating. The results indicate that there is no significant improvement when using the spatially enriched variation of the shortcut feature but there is a decrease in time and keystrokes when the browsing shortcuts mechanism is used alone. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_40 | HCI (7) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
significant role,spatially enriched variation,web page,spatially enriched browsing shortcut,complex information,web pages blind user,blind user,browsing shortcut,browsing shortcuts mechanism,significant improvement,semantic web,web pages,spatial information,visual cues,web accessibility,web browsing | Spatial analysis,Sensory cue,World Wide Web,Web page,Information retrieval,Information seeking,Computer science,Semantic Web,Web navigation,Web accessibility | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 10 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Christos Kouroupetroglou | 1 | 44 | 7.12 |
| Michail Salampasis | 2 | 139 | 18.57 |
| Athanasios Manitsaris | 3 | 88 | 13.06 |