As e-government grows in scope and complexity, an increasing number of e-government services have surpassed the digital access and literacy of many members of the public. Often referred to as the digitally excluded, these individuals seek information intermediaries – such as public libraries and other community anchor institutions – to bridge their information needs and e-government systems. In...

Recent advances in wireless technology and availability of portable devices with networking capabilities have enabled ubiquitous Web accessibility. This has created the need to provide advance Internet services to mobile users without causing service failures due to connection migration or handoffs. However, scarcity of wireless resources restricts the provision of multimedia services in wirele...

The third wave of IT outsourcing has reached small, medium-sized, but also large organisations, with a storm of interest via the Internet, in form of application service provision. Application service providers (ASPs) offer multiple users a subscription-based access model via the Internet or a virtual private network to centrally managed applications. The appeal of ASPs are the per-user-pricing...

The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of available information has made web search a time consuming and complex process. The large number of information sources and their different levels of accessibility, reliability and associated costs present a complex information gathering coordination problem. This paper describes the rationale, architecture, a...

Smartphones have become popular in recent days due to the accessibility of a wide range of applications. These sophisticated applications demand more computing resources in a resource constraint smartphone. Cloud computing is the motivating factor for the progress of these applications. The emerging mobile cloud computing introduces a new architecture to offload smartphone and utilize cloud com...

Videogames are increasingly recognised as an important “quality of life resource” for people with disabilities [1], as has the need, within game industry accessibility advocacy groups, for guidance and assistance in creating accessible games. The IGDA’s Game Accessibility Special Interest Group, for instance, was formed with the mission of helping “the game community strive towards creating mai...

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was established to enhance the accessibility of Web resources for people with disabilities. In this paper we argue that although WAI’s advocacy work has been very successful, the WAI approach is flawed. Rather than WAI’s emphasis on adoption of technical guidelines, the authors argue that the priority should be for a user-focussed approach, which embeds be...

Lignocellulose is the most abundant renewable biomass resource in nature. Pretreatment of lignocellulose can improve accessibility cellulase to cellulose raw materials, reduce ineffective adsorption cellulase, crystallinity and obtain higher reducing sugar. In this paper, several practical pretreatment technologies are summarized, methods, principles, advantages disadvantages each technology th...

This paper presents the design of an augmented reality application for the Gothic Silk Market Building called the "Lonja de la Seda" in Valencia (UNESCO Monument Heritage Site, 1996) and the results of the experiments carried out "in-situ" to observe its usability as an accessibility resource. The objective of this project has been to use and validate augmented reality (AR) as a tool to increas...