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Open AccessLarge-scale study of web accessibility metrics
Evaluating the accessibility of web resources is usually done by checking the conformance of the resource against a standard or set of guidelines (e.g., the WCAG 2.1). The result of the evaluation will indicat...
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Open AccessA large-scale web accessibility analysis considering technology adoption
This paper reports the results of the automated accessibility evaluation of nearly three million web pages. The analysis of the evaluations allowed us to characterize the status of web accessibility. On averag...
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Evaluation of the Accessibility of Mobile Applications: Current Approaches and Challenges
The World Health Organization estimates that around 1.3 billion people worldwide are affected by some form of impairment. Ensuring accessibility of mobile applications has become imperative to meet the require...
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Critical Habitats and Biodiversity: Inventory, Thresholds and Governance
Marine habitats are extremely valuable in many ways (e.g., economically, culturally or for subsistence) and provide many necessary services for humans (Costanza et al. 1997, 2014). Despite their importance, co...
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Audio rendering smart TV apps through mobile devices
TV service providers now offer a variety of features, including broadcast-related ones like electronic programme guides, catch-up and recording features, but also Internet access and a variety of TV applicatio...
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Changes of the Macrobenthos Community with Non-native Mangrove Rehabilitation (Kandelia obovata) and Salt Marsh Invasion (Spartina alterniflora) in **men Island, Zhejiang, China
Macrobenthos organisms are vital ecological components of intertidal wetlands. This work studied effects of non-native mangrove rehabilitation (Kandelia obovata) and salt marsh invasion (Spartina alterniflora) on...
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Breast cancer in Colombia: a growing challenge for the healthcare system
To provide a comprehensive overview of breast cancer in Colombia.
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Alternative modalities for visually impaired users to control smart TVs
Smart TVs offer a variety of features that increase interactivity and available services when compared to other TVs. Furthermore, remote controls have become more complex, with more and smaller buttons, making...
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The microstratigraphic record of human activities and formation processes at the Mesolithic shell midden of Poças de São Bento (Sado Valley, Portugal)
Shell midden formation is largely controlled by anthropogenic processes, resulting from human exploitation of aquatic resources. This makes shell middens archives of both human behaviour and palaeoenvironmenta...
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Factors that Impact the Acceptability of On-Body Interaction by Users with Visual Impairments
On-body interaction is a growing alternative way of controlling eve...
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Design of Social Network Services for and with Older Adults
Social network services are one example of how technology can help address social isolation. However, many attempts at creating social networks for older adults have failed. The reasons for the failures are co...
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Multimedia Accessibility
Multimedia content is growing at an increasing pace. Making this content accessible to people with impairments is not only paramount but also a growing challenge in itself. Access services for people with visu...
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Visually impaired people and the emerging connected TV: a comparative study of TV and Web applications’ accessibility
With the TV signal digitization and the current market growth of connected TVs, the authors envision the appearance of accessibility barriers to visually impaired persons. The paper addresses the following hyp...
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Multimodal Fusion and Fission within the W3C MMI Architectural Pattern
The current W3C recommendation for multimodal interfaces provides a standard for the message exchange and overall structure of modality components in multimodal applications. However, the details for multimoda...
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In Memoriam, Scott M. Nixon (1943–2012)
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Open AccessValidation of astrocytic reference genes for qRT-PCR in CO treatment studies
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Evaluating the Accessibility of Adaptive TV Based Web Applications
The accessibility evaluation of Web applications has been gaining momentum in previous years. Several guidelines and systems are now available to assess the accessibility of a Web page. However, these guidelin...
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Building an Adaptive Multimodal Framework for Resource Constrained Systems
Multimodal adaptive systems have typically been resource consuming systems, due to the requirements of processing recognition based modalities, and computing and applying adaptations based on users and context...
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Prototy** TV and Tablet Facebook Interfaces for Older Adults
With the daily problem of social isolation comes an aggravation of older adults’ general health. Social Network Services like Facebook have the potential to ameliorate the social connectivity of this segment o...
