Paper Info
Title
A Semantic-web based framework for developing applications to improve accessibility in the WWW
Abstract
One of the biggest issues the World Wide Web (WWW) community has to overcome is accessibility for all. The rapid expansion of the WWW using problematic web authoring practices, together with the dominance of the desktop metaphor in web page design has raised many WWW accessibility problems for people with disabilities. In this paper we present a what may be termed as a "Semantic Web application framework" which allows different applications to be designed and developed for improving accessibility of the WWW. Apart from the architecture, the tools and the technologies that compose the framework, the key idea of the framework is that it aims at promoting the idea of creating a community of people federating into groups each playing a specific role: ontology creators creating concepts using an ontological approach to describe various elements of the WWW, annotators using concepts to annotate specific pages, user-agent developers creating tools based on the framework, and finally end-users (people with disabilities) that use these tools for their benefit. Within the proposed framework, these groups cooperate and interact with each other, having as their ultimate goal the improvement of WWW accessibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1133219.1133238
W4A
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
web page design,proposed framework,problematic web,key idea,specific page,www accessibility,semantic web application framework,specific role,world wide web,www accessibility problem,semantic web,user agent
Conference
1-59593-281-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.82
23
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christos Kouroupetroglou1447.12
Michail Salampasis213918.57
Athanasios Manitsaris38813.06