Accessible web automation interface

Abstract

With the growth of the Web as a platform for performing many useful daily tasks, such as shopping and paying bills, and as an important vehicle for doing business, the Web's potential to improve the quality of life of blind and low-vision users is greater than ever. However, the growth of sophistication of Web applications continues to outpace the capabilities of tools that help make the Web more accessible. Web automation has the potential to bridge the divide between the ways visually impaired users and sighted users access the Web, and enable visually impaired users to breeze through Web browsing tasks that beforehand were slow, hard, or even impossible to achieve. Typical automation interfaces require that the user record a macro, a useful sequence of browsing steps, so that these steps can be replayed in the future. In this paper, I present the results of evaluation of two web automation user interfaces that enable web automation without having to record macros. The experiments suggest that the approach has the potential to significantly increase accessibility and usability of web pages by reducing interaction time, and by enhancing user experience.

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