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Internet explorer smart toolbar for the blind

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Jirasak Chirathivat,

Jakkrapong Nakdej,

Proadpran Punyabukkana,

Atiwong SuchatoAuthors Info & Claims

i-CREATe '07: Proceedings of the 1st international convention on Rehabilitation engineering & assistive technology: in conjunction with 1st Tan Tock Seng Hospital Neurorehabilitation Meeting

Pages 195 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/1328491.1328540

Published: 23 April 2007 Publication History

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Accessing information on the internet is a very common task nowadays. However, the ability to do such a task is rather limited for the disabled, especially the visually-impaired. In order to serve this special group of users, a specially-designed web browsing application is needed. Having examined the need of the visually-impaired users from a major Thai school for the blinds in Bangkok, we propose a web browsing scheme in the form of a toolbar-styled plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This plugin enables the program to interact with users via Thai language speech interface utilizing Text-To-Speech and voice recognition technologies previously deployed in its predecessor which is, in contrary, a stand-alone web browser. One of the features of this toolbar is its support for arranging webpage contents into a hierarchical structure that better represents the relationship among contents on the page based on its visual layout using simple user-definable XML templates. Additional features include website suggestion and web feed reader. This paper also presents some brief users' experience and discusses directions of improving this toolbar.

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Internet explorer smart toolbar for the blind
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i-CREATe '07: Proceedings of the 1st international convention on Rehabilitation engineering & assistive technology: in conjunction with 1st Tan Tock Seng Hospital Neurorehabilitation Meeting

April 2007

272 pages

ISBN:9781595938527

DOI:10.1145/1328491

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Zen T. H. KOH
START Centre (Singapore)

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Miyabe MYoshino TShigeno A(2011)Sharing Multilingual Resources to Support Hospital ReceptionsThe Language Grid10.1007/978-3-642-21178-2_8(119-132)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2011
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Miyabe MYoshino T(2009)Design of Face-to-Face Multilingual Communication Environment for Illiterate PeopleProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development: Held as Part of HCI International 200910.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_32(283-292)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_32

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