June 2009 Archives

Dissertation Done!

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Last week, I finished and submitted my dissertation entitled Intelligent Interfaces "Enabling Blind Web Users to Build Accessibility Into the Web."  This work is a great summary of the work that I've been doing in accessibility over the past few years, and a good guide to where I think access technology and the web will be going in the future.

The more we understand about how people interact with web content, the more we can help automatically and *unobtrusively* adapt content to better suit the needs of users.  I think disabled users themselves can (and maybe must) play an integral role in this process to make it happen more quickly.

The thesis of my dissertation is:
With intelligent interfaces supporting them, blind end users can collaboratively and effectively improve the accessibility, usability, and availability of their own web access.

Global Reach of WebAnywhere

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Although we didn't originally design WebAnywhere thinking of reaching a global audience, one of the important advantages of it is anyone across the globe can get immediate access to the latest version just by visiting the WebAnywhere Website.  The graph below, along with the associated numbers, demonstrate the very real global reach we've achieved in such a short itme.
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Comma-separated list of country/number of visitors pairs -- UNITED STATES: 6815, UNITED KINGDOM: 2307, CANADA: 675, ITALY: 611, INDIA: 455, AUSTRALIA: 409, SPAIN: 351, TAIWAN: 341, URUGUAY: 335, BRAZIL: 321, GERMANY: 315, SINGAPORE: 273, FRANCE: 265, CHINA: 207, HONG KONG: 147, THAILAND: 137, NEW ZEALAND: 127, JAPAN: 97, NETHERLANDS: 95, MEXICO: 67, SWITZERLAND: 59, AUSTRIA: 57, DENMARK: 51, POLAND: 51, IRELAND: 49, BELGIUM: 47, PORTUGAL: 43, SWEDEN: 43, MALAYSIA: 37, SOUTH AFRICA: 37, ARGENTINA: 35, IRAN: 33, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 33, FINLAND: 29, OMAN:29, NORWAY: 27, CHILE: 25, SLOVAKIA: 21, ISRAEL: 19, TURKEY: 19

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