Summary: TrailBlazer: Enabling Blind Users to Blaze Trails
Through the Web
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
jbigham@cs.washington.edu
Tessa Lau and Jeffrey Nichols
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Rd
San Jose, CA 95120 USA
{tessalau, jwnichols}@us.ibm.com
ABSTRACT
For blind web users, completing tasks on the web can be
frustrating. Each step can require a time-consuming lin-
ear search of the current web page to find the needed in-
teractive element or piece of information. Existing inter-
active help systems and the playback components of some
programming-by-demonstration tools identify the needed el-
ements of a page as they guide the user through predefined

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences