Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research

✍ Scribed by A. Barreto (auth.), Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covering key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities, this important book provides comprehenisve coverage of web accessibility.

Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an overview of existing research and also looks at future developments, providing a much deeper insight than can be obtained through existing research libraries, aggregations, or search engines. In tackling the subject from a research, rather than practitioner standpoint, scientists, engineers and postgraduate students will find a definitive and foundational text that includes field overviews, references, issues, new research, problems and solutions, and opinions from industrial experts and renowned academics from leading international institutions including Adobe, Google, IBM, W3C, and York, Dartmouth and Kansai Universities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Visual Impairments....Pages 3-13
Cognitive and Learning Impairments....Pages 15-23
Hearing Impairments....Pages 25-35
Physical Impairment....Pages 37-46
Ageing....Pages 47-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-60
Web Accessibility and Guidelines....Pages 61-78
Web Accessibility Evaluation....Pages 79-106
End User Evaluations....Pages 107-126
Authoring Tools....Pages 127-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Assistive Technologies....Pages 142-162
Desktop Browsers....Pages 163-193
Specialized Browsers....Pages 195-213
Browser Augmentation....Pages 215-229
Transcoding....Pages 231-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Education....Pages 263-271
Specialized Documents....Pages 274-285
Multimedia and Graphics....Pages 287-299
Mobile Web and Accessibility....Pages 302-313
Semantic Web....Pages 315-330
Web 2.0....Pages 331-343
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Universal Usability....Pages 346-355
Back Matter....Pages 357-364

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Computers and Society; Media Design