Rui Lopes
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a new approach on leveraging accessibility for rich document delivery to the Web. The proposal entails a profile modeling task, where multidisciplinary teams can discuss users, devices, and usage scenarios, in order to grasp and synthesise the different document delivery scenarios. A document production framework is presented, which can be configured according to modeled profiles. By using this approach, documents are tailored to users in such a way that rich interaction capabilities are maintained, without sacrificing content accessibility.
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Index Terms
- Leveraging rich accessible documents on the web
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