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Fast Access to Web Pages with Finger Reading

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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We can access to large amounts of information on the web. Searching and getting information has become much more important. Using assistive products, visually impaired people also can access to a goodly portion of them, but getting information they need still takes long time. We introduce our software “Finger Skitter”, which is being developed not for reading a document but for getting information with voice navigation. This software provides 2 types of user interface to rapidly get “what the document is written about” and “where is the information in the document”. We implement a prototype of the software with JavaScript, which uses live-regions supported in WAI-ARIA to control a speech engine.

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  1. Craig, J., Cooper, M.: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0, W3C, http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/

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  1. Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology, 4-12-7 Kasuga, Tsukuba city, Ibaraki Pref., Japan

    Toshihiro Kanahori

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Kanahori, T. (2010). Fast Access to Web Pages with Finger Reading. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_58

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_58

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-14096-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-14097-6

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