DANTE: Annotation and transformation of web pages for visually impaired users

YILMAZ Y., Harper S., Goble C., Stevens R.

13th International World Wide Web Conference on Alternate Track, Papers and Posters, WWW Alt. 2004, New York, United States Of America, 19 - 21 May 2004, pp.490-491, (Full Text) identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1145/1013367.1013540
  • City: New York
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Page Numbers: pp.490-491
  • Keywords: Mobility, Semantic annotation, Tool, Travel, Visual impairment
  • Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus Affiliated: No

Abstract

Most Web pages are designed for visual interaction so the mobility, or ease of travel, of visually impaired Web travellers is reduced [2]. Objects that support travel and mobility are not in an appropriate form for nonvisual interaction. Our goal is to enhance the mobility of visually impaired Web travellers by annotating pages with a travel ontology that aims to encapsulate rich structural and navigational knowledge. We propose a semi-Automated tool 'Dante' which aims to analyseWeb pages to extract travel objects, discover their roles, annotate them with a travel ontology and transform pages based on the annotations to enhance the provided mobility support. This poster introduces the travel ontology and presents howWeb pages are annotated with this ontology to guide the transformations.