TY - GEN
T1 - Accessibility commons
T2 - 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS'08
AU - Kawanaka, Shinya
AU - Borodin, Yevgen
AU - Bigham, Jeffrey P.
AU - Lunn, Darren
AU - Takagi, Hironobu
AU - Asakawa, Chieko
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Research projects, assistive technology, and individuals all create metadata in order to improve Web accessibility for visually impaired users. However, since these projects are disconnected from one another, this metadata is isolated in separate tools, stored in disparate repositories, and represented in incompatible formats. Web accessibility could be greatly improved if these individual contributions were merged. An integration method will serve as the bridge between future academic research projects and end users, enabling new technologies to reach end users more quickly. Therefore we introduce Accessibility Commons, a common infrastructure to integrate, store, and share metadata designed to improve Web accessibility. We explore existing tools to show how the metadata that they produce could be integrated into this common infrastructure, we present the design decisions made in order to help ensure that our common repository will remain relevant in the future as new metadata is developed, and we discuss how the common infrastructure component facilitates our broader social approach to improving accessibility.
AB - Research projects, assistive technology, and individuals all create metadata in order to improve Web accessibility for visually impaired users. However, since these projects are disconnected from one another, this metadata is isolated in separate tools, stored in disparate repositories, and represented in incompatible formats. Web accessibility could be greatly improved if these individual contributions were merged. An integration method will serve as the bridge between future academic research projects and end users, enabling new technologies to reach end users more quickly. Therefore we introduce Accessibility Commons, a common infrastructure to integrate, store, and share metadata designed to improve Web accessibility. We explore existing tools to show how the metadata that they produce could be integrated into this common infrastructure, we present the design decisions made in order to help ensure that our common repository will remain relevant in the future as new metadata is developed, and we discuss how the common infrastructure component facilitates our broader social approach to improving accessibility.
KW - Annotation
KW - Database
KW - Metadata
KW - Web accessibility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/62949229186
U2 - 10.1145/1414471.1414500
DO - 10.1145/1414471.1414500
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:62949229186
SN - 9781595939760
T3 - ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 153
EP - 160
BT - ASSETS'08
Y2 - 13 October 2008 through 15 October 2008
ER -