KAI and accessibility metrics

Autores
González, Julia; Macías, Mercedes; Sánchez, Fernando; Hernández, Juan
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de conferencia
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
Currently, visually impaired people have problems to access many of the information published on the Internet. Most of the accessibility tools focus on designers or end-users, but few tools consider both at the same time. KAI (Kit for Accessibility to the Internet) considers designers and also users and gives blind people the possibility of having a selective access to the contents of the Internet using WebTouch, an audio/touch browser provided with the kit. KAI relies on a new language called BML (Blind Markup Language) where an element of a web page can be represented only by one tag and one tag can represent only one element. There is a tool in the kit that transforms from HTML to BML and viceversa, so that legacy sites can be accessed. KAI also provides a set of metrics so that a visually impaired user can know the accessibility degree of a web site before surfing. To our knowledge there is no tool providing together all these features. In this paper we give a short overview of KAI, and also list some of the parameters considered to build the metrics for measuring the accessibility degree of a web site from the point of view of visually impaired people.
Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativa
Materia
Ciencias Informáticas
accessibility
BML
visually impaired
Nivel de accesibilidad
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title KAI and accessibility metrics
spellingShingle KAI and accessibility metrics
González, Julia
Ciencias Informáticas
accessibility
BML
visually impaired
title_short KAI and accessibility metrics
title_full KAI and accessibility metrics
title_fullStr KAI and accessibility metrics
title_full_unstemmed KAI and accessibility metrics
title_sort KAI and accessibility metrics
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González, Julia
Macías, Mercedes
Sánchez, Fernando
Hernández, Juan
author González, Julia
author_facet González, Julia
Macías, Mercedes
Sánchez, Fernando
Hernández, Juan
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Sánchez, Fernando
Hernández, Juan
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Informáticas
accessibility
BML
visually impaired
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accessibility
BML
visually impaired
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Currently, visually impaired people have problems to access many of the information published on the Internet. Most of the accessibility tools focus on designers or end-users, but few tools consider both at the same time. KAI (Kit for Accessibility to the Internet) considers designers and also users and gives blind people the possibility of having a selective access to the contents of the Internet using WebTouch, an audio/touch browser provided with the kit. KAI relies on a new language called BML (Blind Markup Language) where an element of a web page can be represented only by one tag and one tag can represent only one element. There is a tool in the kit that transforms from HTML to BML and viceversa, so that legacy sites can be accessed. KAI also provides a set of metrics so that a visually impaired user can know the accessibility degree of a web site before surfing. To our knowledge there is no tool providing together all these features. In this paper we give a short overview of KAI, and also list some of the parameters considered to build the metrics for measuring the accessibility degree of a web site from the point of view of visually impaired people.
Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativa
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