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
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