Post on 21-May-2015
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Wendy ChisholmDepartment of Computer Science
University of Washington
Richard LadnerDepartment of Computer Science
University of Washington
Jeffrey P. BighamROC HCI Group
Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of Rochester
WebAnywhere: Experiences with a New Delivery Model for Access Technology
WebAnywhereScript
EmbeddedPlayer
WebPage
Web
Client Web Browser
Sound Players
Flash PlayerTransformedWeb Page
Client-Side WebAnywhere
WebProxy
Text to Speech
Server-Side WebAnywhere
http://www2008.org
WebAnywhereScript
EmbeddedPlayer
WebPage
Web
Client Web Browser
Sound Players
Flash PlayerTransformedWeb Page
Client-Side WebAnywhere
WebProxy
Text to Speech
Server-Side WebAnywhere
WebAnywhereSystem http://www2008.org
Bigham et al. “WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go” W4A 2008.
WebAnywhere Traffic
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11/15/2008 1/31/2010
Worldwide Audience
Interesting Qualities
Free - users need an affordable option - something to fall back on
No Installation - no installation means usable in more places
Low-Cost Distribution & Updates - each time users visit WA they get the newest version
Who would actually use WebAnywhere?
Who
Not everyone was blind People with reading difficulties People with low vision Web developers Educators
People from all over the world!
New Version
Speech Recognition
Highlighted Content
High-contrast and magnified view
- More languages- Better Mouse Support
“Eye” Tracking
Bigham and Murray. “WebTrax: Visualizing Non-Visual Web Interactions.” ICCHP 2010.
Accessibility By Demonstration
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DeveloperUser
Demonstrates Accessibility Problem
Iterative Improvement
Demonstration of Accessibility Problem
http://domain.org/XN2320
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http://statefruits.org/
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User Demonstration
Bigham et al. “Accessibility by Demonstration: Enabling End Users to Guide Developersto WebAccessibility Solutions.” Coming Soon.
Design to Read
Leverage WA in Your Research
http://webanywhere.googlecode.com
WA in 3 Steps and 30 Seconds
Apache with PHP
svn checkout http://webanywhere.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wa
Access at http://<yourhost>/wa/
THE END
http://webanywhere.googlecode.com
jbigham@cs.rochester.edu
Thanks to NSF, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Ivona
WebAnywhereScript
EmbeddedPlayer
WebPage
Web
Client Web Browser
Sound Players
Flash PlayerTransformedWeb Page
Client-Side WebAnywhere
WebProxy
Text to Speech
Server-Side WebAnywhere
http://www2008.org