EAGER: Sonifying Cyber-Security Cues for Internet Users Who Are Visually Impaired

互联网是视障人士的主要交流媒介之一。然而，这一服务不足的互联网用户群体容易受到各种形式的网络攻击，这使得为普通互联网用户提供的在线服务的有效利用恶化。屏幕阅读器工具通常会提供大量的文本，这可能会导致这些用户忽略这些信息，从而使视觉障碍的用户感到不知所措。一个被忽视的安全警告可能会伤害用户，使他们容易受到各种形式的网络威胁。这个项目将安全提示和警告通过声音转换成各种形式的音调和声音。它采用安全提示或警告信息，并组成最有效的音高/声音来表示安全警告，并通过声音而不是屏幕阅读器的文字将安全信息传达给视障用户。经过广泛的可用性测试的声音安全警告，以评估有效性的声音安全提示。该项目的广泛影响包括提供一种基于声音的技术来提醒视障的互联网用户，帮助他们在遇到安全警告时做出明智的决定，并确保这些安全警告不会被忽视。将安全警告转换为声音的基于声音的技术可以集成到任何流行的Internet Web浏览器中。

The Internet is one of the primary communication media for users who are visually impaired. However, the vulnerability of this underserved population of Internet users to various forms of cyber-attacks has deteriorated the effective use of online services offered for general Internet users. The screen reader tools often overwhelm users with visual disability by providing large amounts of text, which may lead those users to ignore that information. An ignored security warning may harm users and make them vulnerable to various forms of cyber-threats. This project translates security cues and warnings into various forms of tones and sounds through sonification. It takes a security cue or warning message and composes the most effective pitch/sound to represent the security warning and conveys the security information to the users who are visually impaired through sounds instead of text verbalized by screen readers. The sonified security warnings undergo extensive usability testing in order to assess the effectiveness of the sonified security cues. The broader impact of this sonification project includes providing a sonification-based technology to alert Internet users who are visually impaired and assist them to make an informed decision when encountering security warnings and to ensure that those security warnings are not overlooked. The sonification-based technology for transforming security warnings to sounds can be integrated to any popular Internet Web browser.