Accessing web based documents through a tree structural interface

Abstract

In addition to the intrinsic accessibility difficulties posed by a graphical user interface for blind web users, specific usability penalties arise from the serial nature of blind adapted interfaces (speech, braille). We propose an approach to the design of a browser tailored for blind users which may mitigate some of these difficulties. We suggest this may be achieved through maximal exploitation of structural HTML markup to support highly dynamic and interactive user control of content rendering. © Springer-Verlag 2004.