A Research on Telephone-Supported Multimodal Accessible Website

Author

Lin, Juin-Ching ; Yeh, Yao-Ming

Author_Institution

Graduate Inst. of Inf. & Comput. Educ., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 June 2006

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

123

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel system, telephone-supported multimodal accessible Web system (TMAW). TMAW is created according to the concept of Web accessibility and universal accessibility, which aims to provide maximum Web site access for any users anytime anywhere. As a result, TMAW creates a dualmodal operation (mouse/keyboard) and dualmodal presentation (visual/audio) environment, and supports telephone accessing. Techniques used in developing TMAW include multimodal interaction mechanism, text-to-speech (ITS) synthesizer and VoiceXML technology. In addition, in order to serve users who do not have the background of programming, we develop an authoring tool, TMAW Builder, to simplify the process of editing contents in TMAW. TMAW is an environment not only friendly to the disabilities, but fulfils the requirement of mobile telecommunication

Keywords

Internet telephony; Web sites; XML; authoring systems; mobile communication; multimedia communication; speech synthesis; telecommunication computing; user interfaces; TMAW Builder authoring tool; VoiceXML technology; Web accessibility; dualmodal operation environment; dualmodal presentation environment; mobile telecommunication; multimodal interaction mechanism; telephone-supported multimodal accessible Web site; text-to-speech synthesizer; Guidelines; Internet; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Speech synthesis; Switches; Telephony; Web page design; Web pages; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taichung

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2553-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUTC.2006.16

Filename

1636262