Navigation Assistance and Web Accessibility Helper

TL;DR

This paper presents a web navigation assistant that provides users, especially those with disabilities, with a visual site map to improve spatial orientation and accessibility during browsing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel web browsing aid that offers multi-level visualizations of site maps to enhance navigation and accessibility for all users.

Findings

Implemented different visualization levels for the site map.

Enhanced user orientation within web navigation sessions.

Improved accessibility for users with disabilities.

Abstract

Web accessibility is actually the most important aspect for providing access to information and interaction for people with disabilities. However, it seems that the ability of users with disabilities to navigate over the Web is not dependent on the graphical complexity, but on the markup used to create the structure of the website. Consequently, it is necessary to design some software assistants to help all users to mark themselves in space during a navigation session. In this paper, we propose an assistant for browsing on the Internet to allow user to get one s bearings within Web navigation. We describe our approach which puts at the disposal of the user a visited site map, thus giving an explicit representation of virtual space. Different levels of visualization are implemented in order to make the map more visible and less overloaded.