Paper Info
Title
A framework to integrate speech based interface for blind web users on the websites of public interest
Abstract
Abstract Despite many assistive tools available for browsing the web, blind persons are not able to perform the tasks using internet that are done by persons without such disability. Even the futuristic social networking sites and other websites using the features of web 2.0 indicate a lesser accessible/responsible web. In this paper, we propose a framework, which can be used by the websites of public interest to make their important utilities better accessible and usable to blind web users. The approach is based on providing an alternate access system on the fly using one single website. The framework makes use of existing technologies like JavaScript, available speech APIs etc. and therefore provides a lightweight and robust solution to the accessibility problem. As a case study, we demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed framework by showing its working on a key functionality of the Indian Railways Reservation Website.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/2192-1962-3-21
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Online TTS on web,Speech service,Speech interfaces,Accessibility,Usability,Navigability
Web design,Web Accessibility Initiative,Web development,Data mining,World Wide Web,Social web,Web page,Computer science,Web standards,Web modeling,Multimedia,Web accessibility
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
21
2192-1962
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.77
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Prabhat Verma1171.11
Raghuraj Singh2273.71
Avinash Kumar Singh33113.77