TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling accessible interfaces to digital library content
AU - Ahmed, Syed Toufeeq
AU - Candan, K. Selçuk
AU - Cidambaram, Suganthi
AU - Gaur, Shruti
AU - Jong, Wook Kim
AU - Kim, Mijung
AU - Sundaram, Hari
AU - Wang, Xinxin
AU - Yu, Renwei
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Most of the web interfaces are primarily designed for people with sight, with visually rich features that makes effective use of the tools to enhance visual usability but in process making it impossible for users who are blind or visually impaired to use them. In this work, our goal is to improve participation to NSF's National Science Digital Library1 (NSDL) by teachers, librarians, and learners who are blind. The middleware for accessible information spaces on NSDL (MAISON) is enhancing the accessibility of NSDL, its internal and external resources and existing services (such as strand maps of educational benchmarks). Relying on cutting-edge, context-aware graph segmentation, filtering and summarization, and concept propagation techniques, the middleware provides information space adaptation, reduction, and preview services through open web-based service APIs to enable implementation of informative navigation interfaces that are able to reduce the complexity of the information space and provide previews to prevent user disorientation.
AB - Most of the web interfaces are primarily designed for people with sight, with visually rich features that makes effective use of the tools to enhance visual usability but in process making it impossible for users who are blind or visually impaired to use them. In this work, our goal is to improve participation to NSF's National Science Digital Library1 (NSDL) by teachers, librarians, and learners who are blind. The middleware for accessible information spaces on NSDL (MAISON) is enhancing the accessibility of NSDL, its internal and external resources and existing services (such as strand maps of educational benchmarks). Relying on cutting-edge, context-aware graph segmentation, filtering and summarization, and concept propagation techniques, the middleware provides information space adaptation, reduction, and preview services through open web-based service APIs to enable implementation of informative navigation interfaces that are able to reduce the complexity of the information space and provide previews to prevent user disorientation.
KW - Annotation
KW - Assistive technology for blind users
KW - Digital library navigation aids
KW - Educational content and web sites
KW - Summarization
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U2 - 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202884
DO - 10.1109/ICME.2009.5202884
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449589955
SN - 9781424442911
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009
SP - 1841
EP - 1842
BT - Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2009
Y2 - 28 June 2009 through 3 July 2009
ER -