Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Fast Web by Using Updated Content Extraction and a Bookmark Facility

  Tsuyoshi Ebina, Seiji Igi, Teruhisa Miyake (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

  This paper from Japan's Communications Research Laboratory presents two techniques for improving speech-based web navigation for visually impaired users. The core problem is that accessing web pages through speech output is significantly slower than …

  • web accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • web navigation
  • screen reader
  • speech-based navigation
  • content extraction
  • assistive technology

• Extracting content from accessible web pages

  Suhit Gupta, Gail Kaiser (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from Columbia University presents Crunch, a web proxy tool that applies heuristic-based filters to extract core content from web pages by removing clutter such as advertisements, navigation menus, spacer elements, and extraneous links. Cru…

  • content extraction
  • screen readers
  • web clutter
  • DOM
  • web proxy
  • visual impairment
  • web accessibility