WebInSight: Making web images accessible

Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 181-188

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Kaminsky, Ryan S ^a   Ladner, Richard E ^a   Danielsson, Oscar M ^a   Hempton, Gordon L ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical character recognition; Transformation proxy; Web accessibility; Web studies

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

BLIND USERS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB CONTEXT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34247391160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168987.1169018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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