Developments like XFORMS are supposed to
encourage the web programmer to concentrate on the
specification of the functionality of the web GUI rather
than its appearance on screen. Instead of having the
document delivery system make the same realisation
choices for every user it could be better to give the
user some control in order to fully exploit this degree
of choice. This would be particularly important for
disabled users. This work shows how a functional
specification of a GUI may be rendered in different
ways to different users by using personal preferences
residing in a user's profile. This extends previous work
on profile-based web document delivery. Because the
GUI parts of pages are rendered according to their
own personal preferences, the web pages become more
accessible to disabled users with very much reduced
effort from the author of the pages. The technique does
not require a specific or modified browser and can be
easily implemented using a combination of common
technologies.
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STONE, R., 2006. A lightweight Web GUI specification and realisation system and its impact on accessibility. IN: Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV 2006), 19 November 2006, Paphos, Cyprus