Context understanding technology to improve Internet accessibility for users with

上下文理解技术可提高用户的互联网可访问性

• 批准号: 7804403
• 负责人: PHILIP R SCHAEFER
• 金额: $ 11.74万
• 依托单位: VORTANT TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7804403
• 关键词: Advertisements; Area; Arizona; Automated Abstracting; Computer software; Computers; Employment; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Food; Frustration; Gifts; Government; Hearing; Individual; Internet; Knowledge; Label; Learning; Left; Link; Marketing; Methods; Modeling; Motivation; Panthera leo; Persons; Phase; Problem Solving; Process; Quality of life; Reader; Reading; Research; Role; Scanning; Site; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solutions; Speech; Spottings; System; Tablets; Tactile; Technology; Testing; Text; Time; Vision; Visual; Visual impairment; Visually Impaired Persons; Work; blind; career; design; disability; experience; improved; innovation; instructor; interest; phrases; public health relevance; research and development; satisfaction; sound; tactile display; tool; vibration; web page; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this SBIR project is to develop a new tool to improve the ability of blind and visually impaired people to quickly get to the right web pages, to avoid ending up on the wrong web pages, and to reach the desired part of the web page efficiently. The motivation for this project is that getting a 'big picture' understanding of a web page is one of the biggest challenges facing visually impaired computer users. Although tools such as screen readers currently exist to convert the text on web pages to audible speech, this solves only a small part of the problem. Existing tools for the visually impaired present the entire web page serially, in full detail, and if the user is not already familiar with the website, it requires a laborious and time- consuming process to read through sometimes hundreds of text objects before knowing whether anything of interest even exists on the page in question. In contrast, the proposed technology analyzes web pages and provides a succinct, informative synopsis of the context of the text and layout of the page, so that a user quickly gains an understanding of where relevant information can be found on the page. The proposed Phase I project involves working with users and instructors to verify the concept, creation of proof-of-concept software to perform the above analysis, and an end-user evaluation study to verify that the new tool, designed to work in conjunction with a market-leading screen reader, improves their abilities and confidence in Internet browsing. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The R&D in this Phase II SBIR project will result in an improved way to use the Internet for individuals with visual disabilities. The technology will help to overcome the lack of accessibility and high level of frustration currently found among blind and visually impaired users. The results of the project will enable such individuals to explore new opportunities and be more productive, thus providing improved employment potential and an increase in the quality of life.

描述（由申请人提供）：这个SBIR项目的目的是开发一种新的工具，以提高盲人和视障人士快速到达正确网页的能力，避免最终出现在错误的网页上，并有效地到达网页的所需部分。这个项目的动机是，获得一个网页的“大局”的理解是视障电脑用户面临的最大挑战之一。尽管目前存在诸如屏幕阅读器之类的工具来将网页上的文本转换为可听语音，但这只能解决问题的一小部分。针对视障人士的现有工具可以连续、详细地呈现整个网页，如果用户还不熟悉该网站，则需要一个费力且耗时的过程来通读有时数百个文本对象，然后才能知道是否有任何感兴趣的内容甚至存在于相关页面上。相比之下，所提出的技术分析网页，并提供文本的上下文和页面布局的简洁的、信息丰富的概要，使得用户快速获得对在页面上何处可以找到相关信息的理解。拟议的第一阶段项目涉及与用户和教师合作，以验证概念，创建概念验证软件来执行上述分析，并进行最终用户评估研究，以验证新工具，旨在与市场领先的屏幕阅读器一起工作，提高他们在互联网浏览方面的能力和信心。 公共卫生相关性：这项SBIR项目第二阶段的研发工作将改进视障人士使用互联网的方式。该技术将有助于克服盲人和视障用户目前缺乏无障碍环境和高度沮丧的问题。该项目的成果将使这些人能够探索新的机会，提高生产力，从而改善就业潜力，提高生活质量。