Access to information on the World Wide Web for blind and visually impaired people
Access to information on the World Wide Web for blind and visually impaired people
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为盲人和视障人士提供万维网上的信息
DOI：
10.1108/eum0000000006993
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发表时间：
1999
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通讯作者：
K. Selby
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作者：
C. Oppenheim;K. Selby
互联网使盲人和视力受损的用户能够通过盲文或语音合成翻译获得以前无法获得的信息。本文着眼于如何三个搜索引擎，阿尔塔维斯塔，雅虎！和Infoseek向一小群视力受损和失明的用户介绍了他们的信息，以及如何访问个别互联网网页。两名参与者有不同程度的部分视力，两名受试者失明，仅依赖语音合成输出。主题被要求在他们的搜索和他们遇到的任何问题的各个阶段的界面设计的反馈。我们发现的访问障碍似乎是由于页面设计者本身缺乏知识和思想。一个可访问的页面不一定是枯燥的。通过遵守简单的准则，视障用户将能够比其他方式更有效地获取信息。视力残疾者也将有与视力正常的同事一样的机会获得知识。
The Internet gives access for blind and visually impaired users to previously unobtainable information via Braille or speech synthesis interpretation. This paper looks at how three search engines, AltaVista, Yahoo! and Infoseek presented their information to a small group of visually impaired and blind users and how accessible individual Internet pages are. Two participants had varying levels of partial sight and two Subjects were blind and solely reliant on speech synthesis output. Subjects were asked for feedback on interface design at various stages of their search and any problems they encountered were noted. The barriers to access that were found appear to come about by lack of knowledge and thought by the page designers themselves. An accessible page does not have to be dull. By adhering to simple guidelines, visually impaired users would be able to access information more effectively than would otherwise be possible. Visually disabled people would also have the same opportunity to access knowledge as their sighted colleagues.