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A Flexible Concept to Establish Accessibility Information in Tourism Web-Pages

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008)

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Accessible tourism that comprises the market of people with disabilities and elderly travelers is far away from being a niche market. Nevertheless it is characterized by missing, insufficient or inaccurate accessibility information on tourism objects. The presented approach demonstrates how it is possible to overcome this deficits and how this growing but neglected market can be supported. The fundamental idea is to aggregate up-to-date, trustable and comparable accessibility information in a central accessibility database. A service-oriented architecture enables information providers to flexibly access and query accessibility information stored in the database by the use of Web services. Consequently, the accessibility information delivered can be integrated in information portals and homepages, thus enabling a wide spreading of accessibility information which is the main focus of this paper.

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  1. Competence network information technology to support the integration of people with disabilities (KI-I), Linz, Austria

    Franz Pühretmair

  2. Institute for Application Oriented Knowledge Processing (FAW), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

    Wolfram Wöß

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Klaus Miesenberger Joachim Klaus Wolfgang Zagler Arthur Karshmer

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Pühretmair, F., Wöß, W. (2008). A Flexible Concept to Establish Accessibility Information in Tourism Web-Pages. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_147

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