• DocumentCode
    3389339
  • Title

    MorfWeb: A New Way of Living the Web Access

  • Author

    Santambrogio, M. ; Tziviskou, C. ; Le Moli, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Politecnico di Milano
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    38838
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    316
  • Abstract
    As Internet is being established the dominating communication platform between applications and final users, Web accessibility is becoming more and more important in the information retrieval and services delivery. This paper presents the limitations of the Web standard WCAG and of two interpretations of it in delivering Web resources to users with disabilities. First, an evaluation of these standards underlines their poor contribution to satisfy the goals of users with disabilities, and then, a proposal of simple architectural steps for the design of a Web site is made based on accessibility as well as usability criteria. This article studies the typical usage scenarios for such users within the Web site of an association with humanistic scopes, and proposes separate interfaces of a polymorphic application that each one of them takes under consideration the physical difficulties a users group may have, its goals and expectations. Finally, various existing tools are presented evaluating their capability to implement Web interfaces following the proposed design model
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web design; handicapped aids; social aspects of automation; Internet; MorfWeb; Web access; Web accessibility; Web resources delivery; Web site design; information retrieval; services delivery; usability criteria; user interface; Application software; Blindness; Deafness; Guidelines; Information retrieval; Legislation; Proposals; Software tools; Usability; Web and internet services; Standards; User Interface; Web Accessibility;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2006. ICTD '06. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Berkeley, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0485-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0485-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTD.2006.301869
  • Filename
    4085545