Many modern Web pages update parts of their content, and this is often automatic. This allows a 'clean' user-interface and information-rich pages. Keeping up with updates or recovering from mistakes can be a problem, however, as it is often not possible to revert a page to a previous state. This can be particularly problematic for users with poor literacy or cognitive disabilities, the elderly, or for users of assistive technologies. For pages that use these technologies to be truly accessible for all, they must afford users sufficient control over updates, to allow them to read and use the information available before it disappears forever. While applying good practice during page design and implementation can provide this, there are many pages for which information changes too rapidly for the user. We propose to supplement assistive technologies with a Web page 'time machine' that will allow users to review all the states a page has been in, and to step backwards or forwards through these states at their own pace.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 w4a2011-ajax
%A Brown, Andy
%A Harper, Simon
%B Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2011
%I ACM
%K ACup AJAX Accessibility SASWAT W4A W4A-2011 Web
%P 28:1--28:4
%R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1969289.1969325
%T AJAX time machine
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1969289.1969325
%X Many modern Web pages update parts of their content, and this is often automatic. This allows a 'clean' user-interface and information-rich pages. Keeping up with updates or recovering from mistakes can be a problem, however, as it is often not possible to revert a page to a previous state. This can be particularly problematic for users with poor literacy or cognitive disabilities, the elderly, or for users of assistive technologies. For pages that use these technologies to be truly accessible for all, they must afford users sufficient control over updates, to allow them to read and use the information available before it disappears forever. While applying good practice during page design and implementation can provide this, there are many pages for which information changes too rapidly for the user. We propose to supplement assistive technologies with a Web page 'time machine' that will allow users to review all the states a page has been in, and to step backwards or forwards through these states at their own pace.
%@ 978-1-4503-0476-4
@inproceedings{w4a2011-ajax,
abstract = {Many modern Web pages update parts of their content, and this is often automatic. This allows a 'clean' user-interface and information-rich pages. Keeping up with updates or recovering from mistakes can be a problem, however, as it is often not possible to revert a page to a previous state. This can be particularly problematic for users with poor literacy or cognitive disabilities, the elderly, or for users of assistive technologies. For pages that use these technologies to be truly accessible for all, they must afford users sufficient control over updates, to allow them to read and use the information available before it disappears forever. While applying good practice during page design and implementation can provide this, there are many pages for which information changes too rapidly for the user. We propose to supplement assistive technologies with a Web page 'time machine' that will allow users to review all the states a page has been in, and to step backwards or forwards through these states at their own pace.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
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author = {Brown, Andy and Harper, Simon},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility},
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isbn = {978-1-4503-0476-4},
keywords = {ACup AJAX Accessibility SASWAT W4A W4A-2011 Web},
location = {Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India},
numpages = {4},
pages = {28:1--28:4},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {W4A '11},
timestamp = {2013-08-07T10:14:51.000+0200},
title = {AJAX time machine},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1969289.1969325},
year = 2011
}