Abstract The World Wide Web (Web) is in constant evolutionary change. This evolution
occurs along many fronts and is led by infrastructure developers, Web designers …

The Web is nowadays omnipresent: we use it at home for private reasons, and we use it at
work for professional reasons; we use it for fun (eg, gaming) and for serious interactions (eg …

In this paper, an empirical based study is described which has been conducted to gain a
deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the visually impaired community when …

Providing alert communication in emergency situations is vital to reduce the number of
victims. Reaching this goal is challenging due to users' diversity: people with disabilities …

Currently, the vast majority of web sites do not support accessibility for visually impaired
users. Usually, these users have to rely on screen readers: applications that sequentially …

Web pages consist of different visual segments, serving different purposes. Typical structural
segments are header, right or left columns and main content. Segments can also have …

Providing alert communication in emergency situations is vital to reduce the number of
victims. However, this is a challenging goal for researchers and professionals due to the …

The importance of the World Wide Web for information dissemination is indisputable.
However, the dominance of visual design on the Web leaves visually disabled people at a …

Audio-only interfaces, facilitated through text-to-speech screen reading software, have been
the primary mode of computer interaction for blind and low-vision computer users for more …

We propose a system for analyzing the structure of a web page based on purely visual
information, rather than on implementation details. This is advantageous because …