Information Society Innovation Fund
Overview
People who are not educated enough, among other reasons, to be comfortable with browsing text can be termed as print-impaired. We propose investigations into web-accessibility for print-impaired with an aim to develop guidelines on authoring web pages. We then identify and demonstrate the feasibility of a model, a web-framework, which can exploit the authoring guidelines to help localize web-content to the print-impaired. We call this project Alipi, meaning the analphabet.
Internet has reached over 1 billion people now. Web content is text heavy and requires people to be comfortable reading text authored in alien contexts. The next large segment of people who will soon have access to the Web, through mobile phones or other devices, are likely to be relatively more print-impaired. We estimate that in India alone there are a billion people who are not comfortable reading the web content either due to illiteracy or simply due to estranged nature of much of the web-content. We model a web-framework for a re-narration web that can assist in pulling up more accessible narrations of the content that suits user's literacy and locality profile. We then develop a supporting tool set and demonstrate the feasibility and the utility of this web-accessibility proposal. We now aim to initiate a process of engagement with government bodies and the World Wide Web Consortium on Alipi guidelines for authoring web pages that facilitate re-narration.Objectives
- Propose guidelines that can become a first set of standards for authoring web pages so as to aid the accessibility for print-impaired.
- Provide an open-source tool-set that illustrates how pages that conform to such authoring guidelines can be exploited through content re-narration by community engagement, which further allows context specific rendering of content for the print-impaired.
- Study the co-existence of both the WAI guidelines for visually handicapped and Alipi guidelines for the visually able but print-impaired during the authoring of the web-pages and their context specific print-impairment friendly rendition of the content.
Overall
Assessment
The project was directly influential in setting us on the Alipi track. The time spent on the project, we feel, has long term returns for the organizations involved. The funding amount we feel was just right for a project of this nature which involves various parallel activities from research discussions, use-case discovery and evaluation, and a phased development of the tools through incremental experimentation.
At the end of the project, we feel that we are at the beginning of a long engagement of maturing the Alipi “deployment” and experiencing the interaction of a variety of people and communities. Towards this, we have already taken steps towards obtaining W3C membership and having commitment by Janastu to do the follow-up work for the coming year. We have also disseminated the idea with enthusiastic response in various forums and are looking forward to develop a business around the work done in the project.
Continuity of funding might have helped further this work with the same tempo, which is significant in further engaging the development resources for this work that is of the nature of public good – albeit with some research focus.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
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