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Information overload in non-visual web transaction: context analysis spells relief

Published: 15 October 2007 Publication History

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Visually disabled individuals use screen readers to browse the Web. Sequential processing of screen readers makes Web browsing time-consuming and strenuous. The problem is further exacerbated when conducting Web transactions (e.g. buying books, paying utility bills, etc.), which typically involve a number of steps spanning several pages. Thus browsing becomes fatigue inducing and causes significant information overload. But usually one needs only small segments of Web pages for completing a Web transaction. Identifying and presenting such segments from Web pages can reduce information overload. An interesting idea is to use context surrounding a link to identify relevant information on the next Web page. I describe how context analysis coupled with Web content analysis can identify relevant content segments. Preliminary results based on my system incorporating this idea, show a lot of promise in combating the information overload problem encountered by visually disabled individuals when they do transactions over the Web.

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Assets '07: Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
October 2007
282 pages
ISBN:9781595935731
DOI:10.1145/1296843
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  1. context
  2. screen-reader
  3. semantic concept
  4. web transaction

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  • (2020)Solution for Information Overload Using Faceted Search–A ReviewIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2020.30055368(119554-119585)Online publication date: 2020
  • (2012)An improved Web search engine for visually impaired usersUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-011-0250-z11:2(113-124)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2012

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