SmartWrap: Seeing Datasets with the Crowd's Eyes
Steven Gardiner, Anthony Tomasic, John Zimmerman · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2015)
This paper presents SmartWrap, a Firefox extension that enables sighted web users — including nonprogrammers — to create reusable "wrappers" that extract the semantic structure of visually-presented datasets on web pages, making them navigable by screen readers. The core problem…
crowdsourcing · screen readers · web accessibility · semantic annotation · web scraping