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Chieko Asakawa,

Takashi ItohAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '98: Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

Pages 149 - 156

https://doi.org/10.1145/274497.274526

Published: 01 January 1998 Publication History

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We first discuss the difficulties that blind people face in trying to lie in society, because of the lack of accessible information resources, and then consider the potential of the Web as a new information resource for the blind. After describing how blind people in Japan currently access the Web, we give an overview of our system for nonvisual Web access. Our system has five special characteristics. One is the use of a numeric keypad for surfing the Net, with a key assignment designed for intuitive operation. The second is a fast- forward key for quick reading. The next two are that hyperlinks are read in a female voice and HTML tags are converted into voice data. The fifth is that the system can be synchronized with Netscape Navigator. After evaluating the system and offering some conclusions, we discuss our plans for future work.

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Assets '98: Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies

January 1998

209 pages

ISBN:1581130201

DOI:10.1145/274497

Chairmen:
Meera M. Blattner
Univ. of California, Davis, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore CA
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New Mexico State Univ.

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