Web mining for navigation problem detection and diagnosis in Discapnet: A website aimed at disabled people

The dramatic increase in the amount of information stored on the web makes it more important to familiarize people with disabilities and elderly people with digital devices and applications and to adapt websites to enable their use by these users. Discapnet is a website mainly aimed at visually disabled people, and navigation is a challenging task for its users. In this context, system evaluation and problem detection become crucial aspects for enhancing user experience and may contribute greatly to diminishing the existing technological gap. This study proposes a system based on web‐mining techniques that collects in‐use information while the user is accessing the web (thus, being a noninvasive system). The proposed system models users in the wild and discovers navigation problems appearing in Discapnet and can also be used for problem detection when new users are navigating the site. The system was tested and its efficiency demonstrated in an experiment involving navigation under supervision, in which 82.6% of a set of disabled people were automatically labeled as having problems with the website.

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