Paper Info
Title
Proxy Service to Contextualize Web Browsing for the Visually Impaired
Abstract
According to World Health Organization (WHO), in June, 2012 there were 285 million Visually Impaired People (VIP) around the world. Unfortunately, many face difficulties when browsing and getting information from the Internet especially when using traditional methods. In our paper, we aim at taking advantage of context-aware computing to assist VIP with contextualized web pages. We propose an integrable proxy service to minimize VIP's browsing problems and make it more effective. This service can reorganize the requested Web page content according to the user's preferences, so screen readers would not read content that is not of interest to the user. The result of the proxy was evaluated using two approaches: (1) manual inspection and (2) user testing. In the first experiment, 64% of the 50 converted websites got satisfactory results. In the second experiment, five VIP have tested the output of our service and expressed their general satisfaction with it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2539150.2539210
iiWAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
general satisfaction,converted web,context-aware computing,world health organization,proxy service,browsing problem,face difficulty,contextualized web page,requested web page content,visually impaired,user testing,integrable proxy service,contextualize web browsing,dom,proxy,segmentation,accessibility,web
Proxy (climate),Data mining,User testing,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web navigation,Multimedia,Database,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Najd A. Al-Mouh131.49
Hend S. Al-Khalifa227651.73
AbdulMalik S. Al-Salman314118.35