Paper Info
Title
Semantically enhanced browsing for blind people in the WWW
Abstract
The WWW is today the biggest source of information and an essential tool for many activities of daily life. Unfortunately, information seeking in this complex hypermedia environment is generally not an easy task. The potentially complex task of information seeking in the WWW is further complicated when the end-user is blind or visually impaired (VI). Usually, web pages are created without taken accessibility into account and without using HTML markup correctly to express the functional structure of documents. Both facts pose a lot of problems to VI during information seeking in the web. In this paper we discuss problems related to this issue and how the information seeking process in the WWW could become more effective and efficient for the VI. We also present an ongoing research effort, inspired from the idea of Semantic Web, aiming to enhance browsing efficiency as a result of rationalizing the way VI browse the WWW.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1083356.1083363
Hypertext 1999
Keywords
Field
DocType
easy task,web page,complex hypermedia environment,vi browse,html markup,complex task,biggest source,daily life,semantic web,blind people,browsing efficiency,web pages
World Wide Web,Web page,Semantic Web Stack,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information seeking,Hypermedia,Semantic Web,Web navigation,Social Semantic Web,Multimedia,Markup language
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-168-6
13
0.83
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michail Salampasis113918.57
Christos Kouroupetroglou2447.12
Athanasios Manitsaris38813.06