Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers

S Harper; Carole Goble; R Stevens

doi:10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483

Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers

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Abstract

Movement, or mobility, is a key to the accessibility, design, and usability of many Web sites. While some peripheral mobility issues have been addressed few have centered on the mobility problems of visually impaired users. We use our past work to address these issues and derive mobility heuristics from mobility models, use these heuristics to place mobility objects within a Web page, and describe the construction of a prototype mobility instrument, in the form of a Netscape plug-in, to process these objects. Our past work extends the notion of movement to include environment, feedback and the purpose of the current travel task. Specifically, we likened web use to travelling in a virtual space, compared it to travelling in a physical space, and introduced the idea of mobility - the ease of travel - as opposed to travel opportunity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2003. (WISE'03).
Editors	Tiziana Catarci, Missimo Mercella, John Mylopoulos, Maria E Orlowska
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	200-208
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-1999-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483
Publication status	Published - 2003
Event	4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering - Rome , Italy Duration: 10 Dec 2003 → 12 Dec 2003

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Abbreviated title	WISE'03
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	10/12/03 → 12/12/03

Keywords

Internet
Web sites
handicapped aids
user interfaces
Netscape plug-in
Web access
Web pages
Web traversing
Web usage
World Wide Web
mobility heuristics
mobility models
mobility problems
peripheral mobility
physical space
prototype mobility instrument
virtual space
visually impaired surfers
Computer science
Feedback
Information management
Instruments
Mirrors
Navigation
Prototypes
Usability
Web page design

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Harper, S., Goble, C., & Stevens, R. (2003). Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers. In T. Catarci, M. Mercella, J. Mylopoulos, & M. E. Orlowska (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2003. (WISE'03). (pp. 200-208). IEEE Computer Society . https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483

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Harper, S , Goble, C & Stevens, R 2003, Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers. in T Catarci, M Mercella, J Mylopoulos & ME Orlowska (eds), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2003. (WISE'03).. IEEE Computer Society , pp. 200-208, 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering , Rome , Italy, 10/12/03. https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483

Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers. / Harper, S ; Goble, Carole ; Stevens, R.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 2003. (WISE'03).. ed. / Tiziana Catarci; Missimo Mercella; John Mylopoulos; Maria E Orlowska. IEEE Computer Society , 2003. p. 200-208.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers

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