TrailBlazer: Enabling blind users to blaze trails through the web

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-186

  Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Lau, Tessa ^b   Nichols, Jeffrey ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind users; Non visual interfaces; Programming by demonstration; Suggestions; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

BLIND USERS; NON-VISUAL INTERFACES; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; SUGGESTIONS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

DEMONSTRATIONS; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 70649084609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1502650.1502677     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research, Springer, 2008.
2. AxsJAX. Google, Inc. (2008). Http://code.google.com/p/google-axsjax/.
3. Baeza-Yates, R., and Ribeiro-Neto, B. Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 1999.
4. Bigham, J. P. and Cavender, A. C. Evaluating Existing Audio CAPTCHAs and an Interface Optimized for Non-Visual Use. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, Massachusetts, 2009. To Appear.
5. Bigham, J. P., Cavender, A. C., Brudvik, J. T., Wobbrock, J. O., and Ladner, R. E. Webinsitu: A comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior. In Proc. of the 9th Intl. ACM SIGACCESS Conf. on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07), Tempe, Arizona, 2007, 51-58.
6. Collins, A. and Loftus, E. A spreading activation theory of semantic processing. Psychological Review, 82 (1975), 407-428.
7. Coyne, K. P. and Nielsen, J. Beyond alt text: Making the web easy to use for users with disabilities (2001).
8. Cypher, A. Eager: programming repetitive tasks by example. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '91). New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 1991, 33-39.
9. Faaborg, A. and Lieberman, H. A goal-oriented web browser. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '06). 2006, 751-760.
10. Harper, S. and Patel, N. Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers. In Proc. of the 7th Intl. ACM SIGACCESS Conf. on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '05). New York, NY, USA, 2005, 90-97.
11. Horvitz, E. Principles of mixed-initiative user interfaces. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI '99). New York, NY, USA, 1999, 159-166.
12. Kelleher, C. and Pausch, R. Stencils-based tutorials: design and evaluation. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI '05). Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005, 541-550.
13. Leshed, G., Haber, E. M., Matthews, T., and Lau, T. Coscripter: Automating & sharing how-to knowledge in the enterprise. In Proc. of the 26th SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08). Florence, Italy, 2008, 1719-1728.
14. Lewis, D. D. Naive bayes at forty: The independence assumption in information retrieval. In Proc. of ECML-98, 10th European Conf. on Machine Learning. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, DE, Chemnitz, DE, 1998, 1398, 4-15.
15. Little, G., Lau, T., Cypher, A., Lin, J., Haber, E. M., and Kandogan, E. Koala: capture, share, automate, personalize business processes on the web. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07). 2007, 943-946.
16. Little, G. and Miller, R. C. Translating keyword commands into executable code. In Proc. of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '06). New York, NY, USA, 2006, 135-144.
17. Mahmud, J., Borodin, Y., and Ramakrishnan, I. V. Csurf: A context-driven non-visual web-browser. In Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on the World Wide Web (WWW '07). 31-40.
18. Nichols, J. and Lau, T. Mobilization by demonstration: using traces to re-author existing web sites. In Proc. of the 13th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '08). Gran Canaria, Spain, 2008, 149-158.
19. Nielsen, J. Hypertext and hypermedia. Academic Press Professional, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA, 1990.
20. Ramakrishnan, I. V., Stent, A., and Yang, G. Hearsay: Enabling audio browsing on hypertext content. In Proc. of the 13th Intl. Conf. on the World Wide Web (WWW '04). 2004.
21. Raman, T. V. Emacspeak - a speech interface. In Proc. of the SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '96). Vancouver, Canada, 1996, 66-71.
22. Selker, T. Cognitive adaptive computer help (coach). In Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence. IOS, Amsterdam, 1989, 25-34.
23. Takagi, H., Saito, S., Fukuda, K. and Asakawa, C. Analysis of navigability of web applications for improving blind usability. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 14:3-13. ACM Press, 2007.
24. Watanabe, T. Experimental evaluation of usability and accessibility of heading elements. In Proc. of the Intl. Cross-Disciplinary Conf. on Web Accessibility (W4A '07). 2007, 157-164.