Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience: ordering search results according to user needs

Alice Good; Jenny Jerrams-Smith

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_5

Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience: ordering search results according to user needs

Alice Good, Jenny Jerrams-Smith

School of Computing

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This paper presents the results of an exploratory study, which aimed to devise a means of improving web accessibility for users with impairments. It looks at how web pages can be rated for accessibility using specific algorithms. These algorithms analyse and select web pages according to user preferences. The study gathered user defined ratings of web page elements, for different categories of special needs’ users that affect accessibility. The algorithms were then created using the results of these ratings. The paper also demonstrates the work in progress in relation to the extension of the Computer Aided Internet Navigation (CAIN) system, which aims to improve accessibility to web based information by re-ordering search results according to user needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Universal access in human-computer interaction. Applications and services
Subtitle of host publication	4th international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2007 held as part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 proceedings, part III
Editors	Constantine Stephanidis
Place of Publication	Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Pages	34-44
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540732839
ISBN (Print)	9783540732822
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_5
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007 - Beijing, China Duration: 22 Jul 2007 → 27 Jul 2007

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Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	4556
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	22/07/07 → 27/07/07

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Good, A., & Jerrams-Smith, J. (2007). Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience: ordering search results according to user needs. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal access in human-computer interaction. Applications and services : 4th international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2007 held as part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 proceedings, part III (pp. 34-44). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 4556). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_5

Good, Alice ; Jerrams-Smith, Jenny. / Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience : ordering search results according to user needs. Universal access in human-computer interaction. Applications and services : 4th international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2007 held as part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 proceedings, part III. editor / Constantine Stephanidis. Heidelberg : Springer, 2007. pp. 34-44 (Lecture notes in computer science).

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Good, A & Jerrams-Smith, J 2007, Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience: ordering search results according to user needs. in C Stephanidis (ed.), Universal access in human-computer interaction. Applications and services : 4th international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2007 held as part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 proceedings, part III. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 4556, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 34-44, 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2007, Beijing, China, 22/07/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_5

Enabling accessibility and enhancing Web experience: ordering search results according to user needs. / Good, Alice; Jerrams-Smith, Jenny.
Universal access in human-computer interaction. Applications and services : 4th international conference on universal access in human-computer interaction, UAHCI 2007 held as part of HCI International 2007 Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007 proceedings, part III. ed. / Constantine Stephanidis. Heidelberg: Springer, 2007. p. 34-44 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 4556).

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