Addressing User Needs: Adapting Information Access for the Elderly
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This paper offers one possible means of addressing the issue of poor web accessibility affecting elderly people. The approach presented is to adapt the order in which web pages are presented to the user according to specific web page elements that affect accessibility and the user’s experience. This technique could reduce the time taken to filter out inaccessible pages and would be particularly beneficial to novice users and those with impairments.
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