NDLI: SASWAT Single Structured Accessibility Stream for Web 2.0 Access Technologies

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SASWAT Single Structured Accessibility Stream for Web 2.0 Access Technologies

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Author	Al-Naser, A.
Abstract	Web accessibility is essential for users with visual impairments. Many tools, such as screen readers, were developed to support web accessibility. Unfortunately, more than 97 % of web sites are not accessible to visually impaired users; that is most of them cannot be read by the available screen readers. Screen readers work “ideally ” if the page contains a plain text. However, most sites nowadays have rich context, focusing on good visual representation. Moreover, the use of Web 2.0 technologies including AJAX, which provides the ability to develop interactive web sites, has increased. Few researches have examined the accessibility of dynamic web sites, web sites with Web 2.0 technologies. Until now, no accessibility solution has existed for Web 2.0 sites. This project aims to investigate the possibility of a screen reader and browser independent bridge. This bridge will listen to network traffic between the browser and the web server to indicate dynamic updates. This project focuses on dynamic updates implemented by AJAX, one of the Web 2.0 technologies. For the purpose of this project, this bridge was tested by displaying the text of the dynamic updates as if they were spoken by a screen reader. However, in future projects, this bridge could then pass these updates to a screen reader, which currently read web pages from the browser as static content.
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Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Screen Reader Access Technology Saswat Single Structured Accessibility Stream Dynamic Update Web Accessibility Web Site Good Visual Representation Static Content Accessibility Solution Network Traffic Dynamic Web Site Impaired User Interactive Web Site Many Tool Web Page Site Nowadays Plain Text Web Server Future Project Rich Context Browser Independent Bridge Available Screen Reader Visual Impairment
Content Type	Text

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