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• Self-Adapting User Interfaces as Assistive Technology for Handheld Mobile Devices

  Robert Dodd · 2006 · Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in mobile device accessibility: the limitations of bolt-on assistive technology solutions for handheld devices. Published at Assets '06, the premier ACM conference on accessible computing, it proposes a paradigm shift from…

  mobile accessibility · self-adapting interfaces · assistive technology · user modeling · design space

• Evaluating Interfaces for Intelligent Mobile Search

  Karen Church, Barry Smyth, Mark T. Keane · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper argues that simply transplanting desktop web search interfaces onto mobile devices creates a poor user experience, and proposes an alternative approach to presenting search results on small screens. The authors first evaluate seven mobile search engines of the era…

  mobile accessibility · mobile search · search interfaces · small screen devices · information retrieval

• Physical Usability and the Mobile Web

  Shari Trewin · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper systematically compares the physical usability challenges faced by desktop web users with motor impairments and mobile web users, identifying where their needs overlap and diverge. Trewin first catalogs the interaction landscape for users with physical disabilities on…

  motor accessibility · mobile accessibility · physical disability · device independence · input methods

• Designing Beneath the Surface of the Web

  Sarah Horton · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper reframes web accessibility as fundamentally a source code design problem, arguing that designers focus almost exclusively on the visual "surface" of web pages — colors, typography, layouts — while neglecting the underlying code layer that determines how well pages are…

  semantic HTML · web design · universal usability · nonvisual access · screen readers

• The Meaning of 'Life': Capturing Intent from Web Authors

  Rhys Lewis · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper explores the fundamental problem that web pages lack explicit semantic information, relying instead on visual cues — layout, color, juxtaposition — to convey meaning. Lewis argues that this semantic deficit creates parallel challenges for two distinct user groups:…

  mobile accessibility · web semantics · content adaptation · device independence · transcoding

• Personalizable Edge Services for Web Accessibility

  Gennaro Iaccarino, Delfina Malandrino, Vittorio Scarano · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents PAN (Personalizable Accessible Navigation), a suite of proxy-based edge services that transform web pages on-the-fly to improve accessibility for users with disabilities. Built on top of the Scalable Intermediary Software Infrastructure (SISI) — a…

  proxy-based accessibility · web accessibility · content adaptation · personalization · edge services

• Use of RSS feeds for content adaptation in mobile web browsing

  Alexander Blekas, John Garofalakis, Vasilios Stefanis · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Patras presents a proxy-based system that uses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to adapt web content for mobile phone browsing. The authors address the fundamental challenge that desktop web pages are largely inaccessible on mobile devices…

  mobile accessibility · content adaptation · proxy server · RSS · mobile browsing

• Web accessibility: is it just a "merry-go-round"?

  Donna Smillie · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This position paper by Donna Smillie of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) examines the relationship between traditional web accessibility for people with disabilities and the emerging field of mobile web accessibility. Writing at a time when mobile web usage…

  mobile accessibility · web accessibility · universal design · usability · cross-device compatibility

• A web browsing system based on adaptive presentation of web contents for cellular phones

  Yuki Arase, Takuya Maekawa, Takahiro Hara, Toshiaki Uemukai, Shojiro Nishio · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from Osaka University and KDDI R&D Laboratories presents a web browsing system that adaptively presents web page components on cellular phones based on their content characteristics. The authors identify that browsing desktop-designed web pages on mobile devices…

  mobile accessibility · content adaptation · adaptive presentation · small screen devices · auto-scrolling

• Mobile phones may be the right devices for supporting developing world accessibility, but is the WWW the right service delivery model?

  Tapan S. Parikh · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This position paper from the University of Washington argues that while mobile phones are well-suited devices for delivering information services to rural developing world users, the World Wide Web as a service delivery model is fundamentally mismatched to this context. Drawing…

  mobile accessibility · digital divide · ICT4D · rural accessibility · novice users

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