Context understanding technology to improve Internet accessibility for users with

上下文理解技术可提高用户的互联网可访问性

• 批准号: 7804403
• 负责人: PHILIP R SCHAEFER
• 金额: $ 11.74万
• 依托单位: VORTANT TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7804403
• 关键词: Advertisements; Area; Arizona; Automated Abstracting; Computer software; Computers; Employment; Evaluation; Evaluation Studies; Food; Frustration; Gifts; Government; Hearing; Individual; Internet; Knowledge; Label; Learning; Left; Link; Marketing; Methods; Modeling; Motivation; Panthera leo; Persons; Phase; Problem Solving; Process; Quality of life; Reader; Reading; Research; Role; Scanning; Site; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Solutions; Speech; Spottings; System; Tablets; Tactile; Technology; Testing; Text; Time; Vision; Visual; Visual impairment; Visually Impaired Persons; Work; blind; career; design; disability; experience; improved; innovation; instructor; interest; phrases; public health relevance; research and development; satisfaction; sound; tactile display; tool; vibration; web page; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this SBIR project is to develop a new tool to improve the ability of blind and visually impaired people to quickly get to the right web pages, to avoid ending up on the wrong web pages, and to reach the desired part of the web page efficiently. The motivation for this project is that getting a 'big picture' understanding of a web page is one of the biggest challenges facing visually impaired computer users. Although tools such as screen readers currently exist to convert the text on web pages to audible speech, this solves only a small part of the problem. Existing tools for the visually impaired present the entire web page serially, in full detail, and if the user is not already familiar with the website, it requires a laborious and time- consuming process to read through sometimes hundreds of text objects before knowing whether anything of interest even exists on the page in question. In contrast, the proposed technology analyzes web pages and provides a succinct, informative synopsis of the context of the text and layout of the page, so that a user quickly gains an understanding of where relevant information can be found on the page. The proposed Phase I project involves working with users and instructors to verify the concept, creation of proof-of-concept software to perform the above analysis, and an end-user evaluation study to verify that the new tool, designed to work in conjunction with a market-leading screen reader, improves their abilities and confidence in Internet browsing. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The R&D in this Phase II SBIR project will result in an improved way to use the Internet for individuals with visual disabilities. The technology will help to overcome the lack of accessibility and high level of frustration currently found among blind and visually impaired users. The results of the project will enable such individuals to explore new opportunities and be more productive, thus providing improved employment potential and an increase in the quality of life.

描述（由申请人提供）：该 SBIR 项目的目的是开发一种新工具，以提高盲人和视障人士快速访问正确网页的能力，避免最终进入错误的网页，并有效地到达网页的所需部分。该项目的动机是，获得对网页的“大局”理解是视障计算机用户面临的最大挑战之一。尽管目前存在诸如屏幕阅读器之类的工具可以将网页上的文本转换为可听语音，但这只能解决问题的一小部分。现有的针对视障人士的工具会连续、详细地呈现整个网页，如果用户还不熟悉该网站，则需要费力且耗时的过程来阅读有时数百个文本对象，然后才能知道是否有任何内容。感兴趣的内容甚至存在于相关页面上。相比之下，所提出的技术分析网页并提供文本上下文和页面布局的简洁、信息丰富的概要，以便用户快速了解在页面上可以找到相关信息的位置。拟议的第一阶段项目包括与用户和讲师合作验证概念，创建概念验证软件以执行上述分析，以及最终用户评估研究以验证新工具的设计与市场领先的屏幕阅读器，提高他们浏览互联网的能力和信心。 公共健康相关性：第二阶段 SBIR 项目的研发将为视障人士提供一种改进的互联网使用方式。该技术将有助于克服目前盲人和视障用户缺乏可访问性和高度沮丧的问题。该项目的结果将使这些人能够探索新的机会并提高生产力，从而改善就业潜力并提高生活质量。