CRI: IAD - Web Accessibility Laboratory

这笔赠款将使建立一个网络可访问性实验室成为可能。这一计算研究基础设施将为包括视力障碍用户、移动用户和计算机科学研究人员在内的多个用户群体提供处理Web内容的技术研究。特别是，该实验室将用于开展交易处理研究和广泛的评价活动。这项工作的核心是一种名为Hearsay的非可视化Web浏览器，目标客户是视力障碍的用户。这项研究的更广泛影响包括提供极大改进的工具，使视障人士能够在万维网上执行重要任务，例如：在社会保障管理部门完成调查、在大学图书馆预订一本书、在线支付账单和购物。

This grant will make it possible to establish a laboratory for Web accessibility. This computing research infrastructure will enable research on technologies for processing Web content for multiple user populations, including users with visual disabilities, mobile users, and computer science researchers. In particular, the laboratory will be used to perform research on transaction processing and for extensive evaluation activities. Central to this work is a non-visual Web browser called HearSay, targeted at users with visual disabilities.The broader impacts of the research made possible by this infrastructure include providing greatly improved tools to allow visually impaired people to perform important tasks on the World Wide Web, such as: completing a survey at the social security administration, reserving a book at a university library, online bill paying, and shopping.