The document discusses the need for web accessibility for blind individuals and proposes a solution called BLACK. It notes that over 37 million people worldwide are blind and outlines legal requirements for accessibility. BLACK would scan webpages for links, create an index table of the links, and convert this to an interactive voice response system to allow blind users to navigate websites. It provides an example of how this would work and discusses alternate accessibility options and the functions and model of the proposed BLACK system.

1. BLACK Simpler Web Accessibility for Blinds

2. DNA Persists Model Changes Black – A website for blinds Poster Presentation, Sankalp-2005, NIST. Black- A Complete web portal on blind’s daily need Idea Presentation, Idea-Max-2007, TCS. Black – A single gateway for blinds to access all the website. Idea Presentation, PGPCME-2009, EDC, MICA,.

3. All About Numbers W.H.O. estimation on blinds in 2002 161 million visually impaired people in the world 124 million had low vision and 37 million were blind 30% of the total blind community use computers ( 11.1 millions ) How many websites are there in the web ? Total number of websites (according to Netcraft data) on earth as of January 2009 is 185,497,213 ( 185 million ) All Websites should be accessible by the blinds!!

4. Law Behind Web Accessibility DDA Act Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which ensures that websites are accessible to blind and disabled users. DDA Act, UK 2.2 (p7): “The Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public.” DDA Act, INDIA THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (Equal Opportunities, protection Of Rights And Full Participation) ACT, 1995

5. Alternates Available Reader (Braille Terminals) Screen Reader Manually convert existing websites for web accessibility webpage should be developed according to the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG

6. BLACK - Functions Check how many links in a webpage Create a index for each link and form a index table Convert the index into the affective IVR system Store the recent index table in buffer for further use Use a screen reader plug-in to read according to the mouse points

7. BLACK – Model HOME ABOUT US CONTACT US FEED BACK <a href=&quot;http://www.blackgateway.com/index.html&quot;>home</a> <a href=&quot;http://www.blackgateway.com/aboutus.html&quot;>aboutus</a> <a href=&quot;http://www.blackgateway.com/contactus.html&quot;>contactus</a> <a href=&quot;http://www.blackgateway.com/feedback.html&quot;>feedback</a> BLACK is a tool to provide simpler web accessibility for the blind people. It scan the number of links in the webpage, according to the href link it will create a index table. For example if a simple webpage having home, aboutus, contact us, feedback then it will create a index table like home 1, aboutus 2, contactus 3, feedback 4. and each index table converted into Interactive voice response. as interactive voice response works it will ask the user for the option. Index Table Home 1 Aboutus 2 Contactus 3 Feedback 4

8. BLACK - Solutions A single gateway through which all the websites can be browsed. Screen is divided into two parts. Upper part is for typing the URL and Lower part is for the WebPages. A plug-in which can be incorporated with the web browser. Special key should be pressed to intimate browser that webpage is accessed by a blind person.

9. My Believe towards Human Computer Interaction “ When system stops thinking, human brain starts working, When human brain stops thinking, system should start working”

10. THANK YOU.