Towards Universal Accessibility on the Web: Do Grammar Checking Tools Improve Text Readability?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design Approaches and Supporting Technologies ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_19 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 272-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hitesh Mohan Kaushik ◽

Evelyn Eika ◽

Frode Eika Sandnes

Keyword(s):

Text Readability ◽

Universal Accessibility ◽

The Web

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A Tool for Assessing Text Suitability for Greek Language Teaching

Journal of Educational Computing Research ◽

10.1177/0735633117731381 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 56 (7) ◽

pp. 1030-1055 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chrystalla Neofytou ◽

Thanasis Hadzilacos

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Language Teaching ◽

Usability Evaluation ◽

Greek Language ◽

Text Corpus ◽

Text Readability ◽

Research Gap ◽

The Web

Viewing its use in language teaching mainly as a text corpus, this article examines the problem of the assessment of suitability of this material for use in the Greek language course in Cyprus schooling. The suitability of texts for use in language teaching is defined by four parameters, which are described in detail in this article: text readability, content, genre, and grammatical information. The literature review shows the research gap as to the ways of finding on the Web a suitable text for use in language teaching according to specific characteristics. The tool diaKeimenou, which is presented in this article, aims to fill this gap and help the teacher choose the most suitable texts for teaching with reasonable effort and time. The results of the usability evaluation of diaKeimenou are also presented in this article.

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Text Simplification

The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics 2nd edition ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199573691.013.52 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Horacio Saggion

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Language Resources ◽

The Past ◽

Text Simplification ◽

Text Readability ◽

Target User ◽

Evaluation Approaches ◽

Linguistic Impairment ◽

Automatic Text ◽

The Web

Over the past decades, information has been made available to a broad audience thanks to the availability of texts on the Web. However, understanding the wealth of information contained in texts can pose difficulties for a number of people including those with poor literacy, cognitive or linguistic impairment, or those with limited knowledge of the language of the text. Text simplification was initially conceived as a technology to simplify sentences so that they would be easier to process by natural-language processing components such as parsers. However, nowadays automatic text simplification is conceived as a technology to transform a text into an equivalent which is easier to read and to understand by a target user. Text simplification concerns both the modification of the vocabulary of the text (lexical simplification) and the modification of the structure of the sentences (syntactic simplification). In this chapter, after briefly introducing the topic of text readability, we give an overview of past and recent methods to address these two problems. We also describe simplification applications and full systems also outline language resources and evaluation approaches.

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The study about the improvements for problems of text- readability for the low-vision user to have difficulties accessing the web-contents in terms of body-typography of daum mobile browsing service, which is very core inquiry

Journal of Digital Design ◽

10.17280/jdd.2011.11.4.003 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 21-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Park, Hanjin

Keyword(s):

Low Vision ◽

Text Readability ◽

Web Contents ◽

Mobile Browsing ◽

The Web

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Authoring WCAG2.0-Compliant Texts for the Web Through Text Readability Visualization

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Methods, Techniques, and Best Practices ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-40250-5_5 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 49-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Evelyn Eika ◽

Frode Eika Sandnes

Keyword(s):

Text Readability ◽

The Web

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What the Web Has Wrought

Informatics ◽

10.3390/informatics7020015 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 15

Author(s):

Antony Bryant

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

World Wide ◽

Digital Age ◽

Significant Development ◽

Universal Accessibility ◽

The World ◽

The Web

In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the development of ‘a large hypertext database with typed links’, which eventually became The World Wide Web. It was rightly heralded at the time as a significant development and a boon for one-and-all as the digital age flourished both in terms of universal accessibility and affordability. The general anticipation was that this could herald an era of universal friendship and knowledge-sharing, ushering in global cooperation and mutual regard. In November 2019, marking 30 years of the Web, Berners-Lee lamented that its initial promise was being largely undermined, and that we were in danger of heading towards a ‘digital dystopia’: What happened?

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