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Abstract | ||
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As the Web becomes a platform for social activities, it isa serious problem that people unfamiliar with informationtechnologies, especially elderly people, cannot use the Webeffectively. Many systems to enlarge fonts and increase linespacing have been developed to improve the readability ofWeb pages. Although magnifying text assists reading byelderly people, it may cause secondary problems thattrouble them from different aspects.To solve such problems, we propose a new"WebDigest" mechanism for modifying the visual formatsof existing Web pages making them more accessible,especially for elderly users. The mechanism, which isincorporated into an annotation-based transcoding system,digests and simplifies the Web content while reserving thestructural format. Evaluation of the method with seniorcitizens showed that this approach improves their ease ofinformation access using the Web. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2003 | 10.1109/SAINT.2003.1183088 | SAINT |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Internet,Web design,handicapped aids,human factors,user interfaces,Internet,Web page readability,WebDigest,annotation-based transcoding system,elderly people,fonts,information access,information technology,layout-preserving visually enhanced Web pages,social activities,visual formats | Web design,Web Accessibility Initiative,Web development,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web standards,Data Web,Web navigation,Social Semantic Web,Multimedia | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-7695-1872-9 | 1 | 0.41 |
References | Authors | |
2 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. Maeda | 1 | 290 | 21.43 |
| Kentarou Fukuda | 2 | 216 | 15.35 |
| Hironobu Takagi | 3 | 744 | 67.77 |
| Chieko Asakawa | 4 | 911 | 86.45 |