Accessmonkey: a collaborative scripting framework for web users and developers
Accessmonkey: a collaborative scripting framework for web users and developers
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Accessmonkey：面向 Web 用户和开发人员的协作脚本框架
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2007
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Richard E. Ladner
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Jeffrey P. Bigham;Richard E. Ladner
对于使用辅助技术访问Web的个人，对Web内容的有效访问仍然难以捉摸。以前改善网络可访问性的努力集中在开发人员的意识，技术改进和立法上，但是这些方法留下了剩余的担忧。首先，尽管许多工具可以帮助生产可访问的内容，但这些工具通常很难集成到现有的开发人员工作流中，并且很少提供开发人员可以实施的具体建议。其次，自动改善用户网络内容的工具通常可以解决特定问题，并且难以合并和使用现有辅助技术的多样性。最后，尽管盲目的网络用户已证明擅长克服网络和现有工具的缺点，但他们只是略涉及改善自己的网络体验的可访问性。
作为解决这些问题的第一步，我们介绍了AccessMonkey，这是一个常见的脚本框架，Web用户，Web开发人员和Web研究人员可以用来协作改善可访问性。该框架提出了这样一个想法，即JavaScript和动态Web内容可用于改善无法访问的内容而不是其原因。使用AccessMonkey，Web用户和具有不同目标的不同平台上的开发人员可以协作使网络更易于访问。在本文中，我们首先介绍了AccessMonkey框架，描述了我们创建的三个实现，并提供了几个示例脚本来证明其实用程序。最后，我们讨论了这项工作的未来扩展，这些扩展将在用户浏览网络并允许非技术用户参与创建脚本时提供有效的脚本访问权限。
Efficient access to web content remains elusive for individuals accessing the web using assistive technology. Previous efforts to improve web accessibility have focused on developer awareness, technological improvement, and legislation, but these approaches have left remaining concerns. First, while many tools can help produce accessible content, these tools are generally difficult to integrate into existing developer workflows and rarely offer specific suggestions that developers can implement. Second, tools that automatically improve web content for users generally solve specific problems and are difficult to combine and use on a diversity of existing assistive technology. Finally, although blind web users have proven adept at overcoming the shortcomings of the web and existing tools, they have been only marginally involved in improving the accessibility of their own web experience.
As a first step toward addressing these concerns, we introduce Accessmonkey, a common scripting framework that web users, web developers and web researchers can use to collaboratively improve accessibility. This framework advances the idea that Javascript and dynamic web content can be used to improve inaccessible content instead of being a cause of it. Using Accessmonkey, web users and developers on different platforms with potentially different goals can collaboratively make the web more accessible. In this paper we first present the Accessmonkey framework, describe three implementations of it that we have created and offer several example scripts that demonstrate its utility. We conclude by discussing future extensions of this work that will provide efficient access to scripts as users browse the web and allow non-technical users be involved in creating scripts.