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V-Lynx: bringing the World Wide Web to sight impaired users

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Mitchell Krell,

Davor CubranicAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '96: Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 23 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/228347.228352

Published: 15 April 1996 Publication History

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The World Wide Web (WWW) project merges the techniques of networked information and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system. A client program called a browser is used to access documents in the WWW system and present them all as parts of a seamless hypertext information space.

However, today's browsers are primarily graphically or text oriented, which makes the whole system inaccessible to sight- impaired users. In this project we wanted to extend an existing browser with voice output. This extension would allow the sight- impaired to use, at least, textual data, which, at present, forms the bulk ofinformation available over the Web. Our browser should be able to read the document a line or paragraph at a time, read only the first sentence in a paragraph for quick scanning of the document, convey the document structure (headings, emphasized text,lists, hyperlinks), and allow for easy navigation while inside and between documents.

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Argyropoulos VSideridis GKouroupetroglou GXydas G(2009)Auditory discriminations of typographic attributes of documents by students with blindnessBritish Journal of Visual Impairment10.1177/026461960910636027:3(183-203)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2009
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Savidis AStephanidis C(1998)The HOMER UIMS for dual user interface development: Fusing visual and non-visual interactionsInteracting with Computers10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00025-311:2(173-209)Online publication date: Dec-1998
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Petrie HMorley SMcNally PO'Neill AMajoe DHall WDavis H(1997)Initial design and evaluation of an interface to hypermedia systems for blind usersProceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext10.1145/267437.267443(48-56)Online publication date: 15-Apr-1997
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/267437.267443

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Assets '96: Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies

April 1996

146 pages

ISBN:0897917766

DOI:10.1145/228347

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Ephraim P. Glinert
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Palo Alto VA Health Care Systems

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ASSETS96: The 2nd International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies

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Argyropoulos VSideridis GKouroupetroglou GXydas G(2009)Auditory discriminations of typographic attributes of documents by students with blindnessBritish Journal of Visual Impairment10.1177/026461960910636027:3(183-203)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2009
https://doi.org/10.1177/0264619609106360
Savidis AStephanidis C(1998)The HOMER UIMS for dual user interface development: Fusing visual and non-visual interactionsInteracting with Computers10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00025-311:2(173-209)Online publication date: Dec-1998
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00025-3
Petrie HMorley SMcNally PO'Neill AMajoe DHall WDavis H(1997)Initial design and evaluation of an interface to hypermedia systems for blind usersProceedings of the eighth ACM conference on Hypertext10.1145/267437.267443(48-56)Online publication date: 15-Apr-1997
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/267437.267443

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