System to Facilitate Internet Use by Disabled is Evaluated
From: Basque Research - 03/04/2010
By: Prentsa Bulegoa

University of the Basque Country (UBC) researcher Markel Vigo recently
published his PhD thesis on the Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric (WAQM),
a system that automatically measures the accessibility level of a Web page.
WAQM can measure the level of accessibility according to the type of
disability of each person and automatically create an accessibility report
for each Web page. This allows users to conduct an Internet search and have
criteria related to their specific disability taken into consideration. The
system uses the Unified Guidelines Language to give each Web page a score,
which is shown next to the Web page's link, based on its level of
accessibility. Vigo says his system gives people with disabilities more
control when carrying out a search on the Internet. WAQM also can create
different accessibility grades based on the type of device that is being
used. Each user gets a profile based on information about the type of
disability, the Internet device of choice, and other factors, and this
profile is used to personalize the accessibility report for each Web page. 

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Markel Vigo
http://www.markelvigo.info/

Markel Vigo publications
http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81329492781&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/3551151.aspx

Markel Vigo presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/markel_vigo
http://www.slideshare.net/markel_vigo/icchp2008

PhD Thesis
http://www.sigweb.org/theses/phd-2000s/markelvigo.shtml

Considering Web Accessibility in Information Retrieval Systems
http://sipt07.si.ehu.es/~markel/icwe2007/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/2dw88r