Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could
be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and …

This paper explores the current rising rates of online learning in higher education. It
examines how disability is activated differently online and the impact of this on learning and …

Virtual reality technology enables people to become immersed in a computer-simulated and
three-dimensional environment. In this chapter, we investigate the effects of the virtual reality …

The visual complexity of Web pages is much talked about;“complex Web pages are difficult
to use,” but often regarded as a subjective decision by the user. This subjective decision is of …

Abstract The World Wide Web (Web) is in constant evolutionary change. This evolution
occurs along many fronts and is led by infrastructure developers, Web designers …

Evaluating the quality of accessible image captions with human raters is difficult, as it may
be difficult for a visually impaired user to know how comprehensive a caption is, whereas a …

This paper lays the foundation for a new delivery paradigm for web-accessible content and
functionality, ie, conversational interaction. Instead of asking users to read text, click through …

Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)(2008) written by Sarah Schmelling and
photoshopped by Angela Liao is an excellent work to look at more closely in relation to the …

This paper presents an eye-tracking study that examines how people use the visual
elements of Web pages to complete certain tasks. Whilst these elements are available to …

Previous studies have defined a new type of impairment in which an able-bodied user's
behaviour is impaired by both the characteristics of a device and the environment in which it …