Web navigation for blind users

The aim of our work is to make the wealth of information on the World Wide Web more readily available to blind people. They must be able to search efficiently for relevant information and make quick and effective decisions about the usefulness of pages they retrieve. We have built a prototype application called BrookesTalk [1] which we believe addresses this need more fully than other speech output Web browsers. Word frequency algorithms are used to provide a set of complementary ‘views’ of a Web page which help blind people make decisions about its usefulness.