Literature Reviews

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

• A web browsing system based on adaptive presentation of web contents for cellular phones

  Yuki Arase, Takuya Maekawa, Takahiro Hara, Toshiaki Uemukai, Shojiro Nishio (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from Osaka University and KDDI R&D Laboratories presents a web browsing system that adaptively presents web page components on cellular phones based on their content characteristics. The authors identify that browsing desktop-designed web …

  • mobile accessibility
  • content adaptation
  • adaptive presentation
  • small screen devices
  • auto-scrolling
  • web browsing

• Use of RSS feeds for content adaptation in mobile web browsing

  Alexander Blekas, John Garofalakis, Vasilios Stefanis (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Patras presents a proxy-based system that uses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to adapt web content for mobile phone browsing. The authors address the fundamental challenge that desktop web pages are largely in…

  • mobile accessibility
  • content adaptation
  • proxy server
  • RSS
  • mobile browsing
  • small screen devices

• Evaluating Interfaces for Intelligent Mobile Search

  Karen Church, Barry Smyth, Mark T. Keane (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper argues that simply transplanting desktop web search interfaces onto mobile devices creates a poor user experience, and proposes an alternative approach to presenting search results on small screens. The authors first evaluate seven mobile …

  • mobile accessibility
  • mobile search
  • search interfaces
  • small screen devices
  • information retrieval
  • user evaluation
  • mobile web