Movement, or mobility, is key to the accessibility, design, and usability of many websites. While some peripheral mobility issues have been addressed few have centred 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.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Harper2003oq
%A Harper, Simon
%A Goble, Carole
%A Stevens, Robert
%B Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'03)
%C Los Alamitos California, USA
%D 2003
%E Catarci, Tiziana
%E Mercella, Missimo
%E Mylopoulos, John
%E Orlowska, Maria E.
%I IEEE Computer Society
%K Accessibility, Centred Human Impaired, Mobility TOWEL, Transcoding, Visually Web Web,
%P 200--209
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483
%T Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers
%U http://www.simonharper.info/publications/Harper2003oq.pdf
%X Movement, or mobility, is key to the accessibility, design, and usability of many websites. While some peripheral mobility issues have been addressed few have centred 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.
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abstract = {Movement, or mobility, is key to the accessibility, design, and usability of many websites. While some peripheral mobility issues have been addressed few have centred 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.},
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address = {Los Alamitos California, USA},
author = {Harper, Simon and Goble, Carole and Stevens, Robert},
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booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'03)}},
date-modified = {2007-06-05 09:59:50 +0100},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2003.1254483},
editor = {Catarci, Tiziana and Mercella, Missimo and Mylopoulos, John and Orlowska, Maria E.},
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keywords = {Accessibility, Centred Human Impaired, Mobility TOWEL, Transcoding, Visually Web Web,},
location = {Roma, Italy},
month = {December},
pages = {200--209},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
timestamp = {2013-07-23T14:51:22.000+0200},
title = {{Traversing the Web: Mobility Heuristics for Visually Impaired Surfers}},
url = {http://www.simonharper.info/publications/Harper2003oq.pdf},
year = 2003
}