Building a programmable architecture for non-visual navigation of mathematics: Using rules for guiding presentation and switching between modalities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5616 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages 3-13

  Abu Doush, Iyad ^a   Pontelli, Enrico ^a  

^a New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Math Accessibility; Navigation; Prosody; Rule based Systems

Indexed keywords

FIREFOX WEB BROWSER; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; INCREASED FLEXIBILITY; MATH ACCESSIBILITY; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAMMABLE ARCHITECTURES; PROSODY; RULE-BASED SYSTEMS; SCREEN READERS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; SWITCH-ON; VISUAL DISABILITY; VISUAL MODALITIES; VISUAL NAVIGATION; WEB PAGE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350334151     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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