| Presentation | 2008/5/22 A Survey on the Use of the Internet among People with Visual Impairments 2007 Manabi MIYAGI, Tetsuya WATANABE, Kazunori MINATANI, Hideji NAGAOKA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | A survey was conducted on the use of the Internet among people with visual impairments. Among 413 effective respondents, 386 people were using the Internet. More than 80% of respondents in their twenties to sixties were using the Internet more than four or five days in a week. Respondents who were print disabled were using the Internet more often than people who were print enabled. Home Page Reader was the most used assistive software with speech output and PC-Talker was the second. Among those software users, 40.1% were using more than two softwares. Many respondents answered that they use the Internet for collecting the information and e-mail. Especially, among thirties the Internet was often used for online shopping and putting out the information. Problems such as lack of alternative text for images, inability to access dynamic content, and inability to navigate Web pages with complex structure were pointed out. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | People with Visual Impairments / The Internet / Speech Browser / Screen Reader |
| Paper # | SP2008-3,WIT2008-3 |
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| Committee | WIT |
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| Conference Date | 2008/5/22(1days) |
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| Registration To | Well-being Information Technology(WIT) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A Survey on the Use of the Internet among People with Visual Impairments 2007 |
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| Keyword(1) | People with Visual Impairments |
| Keyword(2) | The Internet |
| Keyword(3) | Speech Browser |
| Keyword(4) | Screen Reader |
| 1st Author's Name | Manabi MIYAGI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tetsuya WATANABE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Needs Education |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kazunori MINATANI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo |
| 4th Author's Name | Hideji NAGAOKA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology |
| Date | 2008/5/22 |
| Paper # | SP2008-3,WIT2008-3 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
| Number (no) | 67 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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