WebAnywhere - Experiences with a New Delivery Model for Access Technology

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Wendy Chisholm epartment of Computer Science University of Washington Richard Ladner Department of Computer Scienc University of Washington Jeffrey P. Bigham ROC HCI Group Department of Computer Science University of Rochester WebAnywhere: Experiences with a New Delivery Model for Access Technology W ebAnyw here Script Em bedded Player W eb Page W eb Client W eb Brow ser Sound P layers Flash Player Transform ed W eb P age C lient-Side W ebAnyw here W eb P roxy Textto Speech Server-Side W ebAnyw here http://w ww 2008.org

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Updates on the progress and potential of the WebAnywhere web-based screen reader.

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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

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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.

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WebAnywhere Traffic

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Worldwide Audience

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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?

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Who

Not everyone was blind People with reading difficulties People with low vision Web developers Educators

People from all over the world!

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New Version

Speech Recognition

Highlighted Content

High-contrast and magnified view

- More languages- Better Mouse Support

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“Eye” Tracking

Bigham and Murray. “WebTrax: Visualizing Non-Visual Web Interactions.” ICCHP 2010.

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Accessibility By Demonstration

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DeveloperUser

Demonstrates Accessibility Problem

Iterative Improvement

Demonstration of Accessibility Problem

http://domain.org/XN2320

Goto http://statefruits.org/Ctrl+T (next table)Tab (next focusable)Tab (next focusable)Tab (next focusable)Tab (next focusable)Tab (next focusable)Tab (next focusable)

http://statefruits.org/

http://statefruits.org/

User Demonstration

Bigham et al. “Accessibility by Demonstration: Enabling End Users to Guide Developersto WebAccessibility Solutions.” Coming Soon.

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Design to Read

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Leverage WA in Your Research

http://webanywhere.googlecode.com

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WA in 3 Steps and 30 Seconds

Apache with PHP

svn checkout http://webanywhere.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wa

Access at http://<yourhost>/wa/

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THE END

http://webanywhere.googlecode.com

[email protected]

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