The document discusses SADIe, a transcoding platform that adapts web content for different devices. SADIe uses CSS stylesheets and ontologies to semantically annotate web pages. This allows SADIe to identify the purpose of elements like menus or banners and accurately transcode pages while only requiring one annotation per website. SADIe then transcodes pages on the fly through a proxy for the user.
SADIe - Exposing Implicit Information to Improve AccessibilityDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semantic Web technologies to explicate implicit visual structures through a combination of an upper and lower ontology. This is then used to apply accurate transcoding to a range of Websites. To gauge the effectiveness of SADIe's transcoding capability, a user was presented with a series of Web pages, a sample of which had been adapted using SADIe. The results showed that providing answers to fact based questions could be achieved more quickly when information was exposed via SADIe's transcoding. The data obtained during the experiment was analysed with a randomization test to show that the results were statistically significant for a single user.
User Study of the SADIe Transcoding EngineDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semantic Web technologies to explicate implicit visual structures through a combination of an upper and lower ontology. This is then used to apply transcoding to a range of Websites. This paper describes a user evaluation that was performed using the SADIe system. Four users were presented with a series of Web pages, some having been adapted using SADIe's transcoding functionality and others retaining in their original state. The results of the evaluation showed that providing answers to a fact based question could be achieved more quickly when the information on the page was exposed via SADIe's transcoding. The data obtained during the experiment was analysed and shown to be statistically significant. This suggests that the transcoding techniques offered by SADIe can assist visually impaired users accessing content on the Web.
Experiments Towards Reverse Linking on the WebDarren Lunn
Multi-headed reverse linking (incoming links) is a fundamental concept of Open Hypermedia Systems. However, this bi-directionality has been lost in the move to the World Wide Web (Web). Here, we suggest a Web based solution for rediscovering these reverse links, and develop a series of experiments to demonstrate our approach. Simply our algorithm involves parsing a Web server’s log file, identifying each Web page viewed and saving an ordered list of referrers within a 'name–matched' XML file. This file is then used as a link point within a standard XHTML Web–page using a freely available Javascript library. While we have not performed any comprehensive user evaluation initial qualitative results suggest users are positive regarding our additions and that widespread adoption would increase user satisfaction due to constancy of the browsing experience.
Exposing Semantics to Drive TranscodingDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe uses semantic annotations of a Website's Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to drive a transformation process that can improve access to content for visually impaired users. The original process of annotating the CSS involved the use of an upper ontology, extended by a site specific lower ontology. While this approach provided rich annotation of the CSS terms, experience suggests that components within the model were inappropriate for the interactive system we were developing. This experience has led to a more pragmatic approach that still provides the necessary semantics required to drive the SADIe transcoding tool, but in a more lightweight manner. This paper describes the lessons learnt from building the ontological models for the SADIe platform, highlighting pitfalls that developers of ontologies in interactive systems should be wary of.
Ruining The User Experience (The Rich Web Experience '07)Aaron Gustafson
When JavaScript and Ajax go bad, your users aren't the only ones who lose out... Every descision we make in the process of building our websites, applications, and interfaces contributes to the overall experience a user has. Sometimes, in our rush to ride the latest wave in interaction design, we miss the mark and end up doing more harm than good.
SADIe - Exposing Implicit Information to Improve AccessibilityDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semantic Web technologies to explicate implicit visual structures through a combination of an upper and lower ontology. This is then used to apply accurate transcoding to a range of Websites. To gauge the effectiveness of SADIe's transcoding capability, a user was presented with a series of Web pages, a sample of which had been adapted using SADIe. The results showed that providing answers to fact based questions could be achieved more quickly when information was exposed via SADIe's transcoding. The data obtained during the experiment was analysed with a randomization test to show that the results were statistically significant for a single user.
User Study of the SADIe Transcoding EngineDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semantic Web technologies to explicate implicit visual structures through a combination of an upper and lower ontology. This is then used to apply transcoding to a range of Websites. This paper describes a user evaluation that was performed using the SADIe system. Four users were presented with a series of Web pages, some having been adapted using SADIe's transcoding functionality and others retaining in their original state. The results of the evaluation showed that providing answers to a fact based question could be achieved more quickly when the information on the page was exposed via SADIe's transcoding. The data obtained during the experiment was analysed and shown to be statistically significant. This suggests that the transcoding techniques offered by SADIe can assist visually impaired users accessing content on the Web.
Experiments Towards Reverse Linking on the WebDarren Lunn
Multi-headed reverse linking (incoming links) is a fundamental concept of Open Hypermedia Systems. However, this bi-directionality has been lost in the move to the World Wide Web (Web). Here, we suggest a Web based solution for rediscovering these reverse links, and develop a series of experiments to demonstrate our approach. Simply our algorithm involves parsing a Web server’s log file, identifying each Web page viewed and saving an ordered list of referrers within a 'name–matched' XML file. This file is then used as a link point within a standard XHTML Web–page using a freely available Javascript library. While we have not performed any comprehensive user evaluation initial qualitative results suggest users are positive regarding our additions and that widespread adoption would increase user satisfaction due to constancy of the browsing experience.
Exposing Semantics to Drive TranscodingDarren Lunn
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe uses semantic annotations of a Website's Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to drive a transformation process that can improve access to content for visually impaired users. The original process of annotating the CSS involved the use of an upper ontology, extended by a site specific lower ontology. While this approach provided rich annotation of the CSS terms, experience suggests that components within the model were inappropriate for the interactive system we were developing. This experience has led to a more pragmatic approach that still provides the necessary semantics required to drive the SADIe transcoding tool, but in a more lightweight manner. This paper describes the lessons learnt from building the ontological models for the SADIe platform, highlighting pitfalls that developers of ontologies in interactive systems should be wary of.
Ruining The User Experience (The Rich Web Experience '07)Aaron Gustafson
When JavaScript and Ajax go bad, your users aren't the only ones who lose out... Every descision we make in the process of building our websites, applications, and interfaces contributes to the overall experience a user has. Sometimes, in our rush to ride the latest wave in interaction design, we miss the mark and end up doing more harm than good.
SPTechCon Boston 2012 - Flying in the Cloud: New Ways to Develop for SharePointMarc D Anderson
With all of the talk about moving SharePoint into "the cloud," developers have to rethink some of the methods they have used successfully in the past. Sandboxed solutions, while still powerful, impose limitations which can stymie traditional SharePoint developers. To add to the challenge, today’s SharePoint users want more from their applications, both in terms of functionality and the overall user experience. At the same time, CIOs and CTOs want to get more "bang for their buck," spending less to accomplish more.
In this session, we will discuss the latest developments with the alternative development approach that the instructor calls the SharePoint's Middle Tier. This includes HTML, XSL/XML, JavaScript/jQuery, Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), SharePoint’s SOAP (XML) Web Services and more. The techniques are sometimes called "no code." Whatever you call them, they don't require any server side deployment and that makes them ideal for use with Office365 and even on premises enterprise deployments.
This is from the Workshop on WordPress for Small Businesses at WordCamp Ottawa on May 4, 2014. We crowdsourced the resulting menu that I've added at the end of the slides. To follow the conversation, follow @WPOttawa and #WCOttawa. See you next time!
Ruining The User Experience (The Ajax Experience Boston 2007)Aaron Gustafson
This session will walk you through several real-world examples, pointing out common mistakes that hinder usability, accessibility, and search while teaching you ways to avoid them altogether, either programmatically or simply by altering the way you think about JavaScript-based interactivity.
1 out of 5 people have some kind of disability, and although not all disabilities make it difficult to use and access the web, many do. We should keep this in mind when designing and developing websites.
Rhonda Bracey's presentation to the AODC 2006 Conference (Cairns, Queensland), and ASTC (NSW) 2006 Conference (Sydney). More supporting materials available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/10353.htm
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SPTechCon Boston 2012 - Flying in the Cloud: New Ways to Develop for SharePointMarc D Anderson
With all of the talk about moving SharePoint into "the cloud," developers have to rethink some of the methods they have used successfully in the past. Sandboxed solutions, while still powerful, impose limitations which can stymie traditional SharePoint developers. To add to the challenge, today’s SharePoint users want more from their applications, both in terms of functionality and the overall user experience. At the same time, CIOs and CTOs want to get more "bang for their buck," spending less to accomplish more.
In this session, we will discuss the latest developments with the alternative development approach that the instructor calls the SharePoint's Middle Tier. This includes HTML, XSL/XML, JavaScript/jQuery, Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), SharePoint’s SOAP (XML) Web Services and more. The techniques are sometimes called "no code." Whatever you call them, they don't require any server side deployment and that makes them ideal for use with Office365 and even on premises enterprise deployments.
This is from the Workshop on WordPress for Small Businesses at WordCamp Ottawa on May 4, 2014. We crowdsourced the resulting menu that I've added at the end of the slides. To follow the conversation, follow @WPOttawa and #WCOttawa. See you next time!
Ruining The User Experience (The Ajax Experience Boston 2007)Aaron Gustafson
This session will walk you through several real-world examples, pointing out common mistakes that hinder usability, accessibility, and search while teaching you ways to avoid them altogether, either programmatically or simply by altering the way you think about JavaScript-based interactivity.
1 out of 5 people have some kind of disability, and although not all disabilities make it difficult to use and access the web, many do. We should keep this in mind when designing and developing websites.
Rhonda Bracey's presentation to the AODC 2006 Conference (Cairns, Queensland), and ASTC (NSW) 2006 Conference (Sydney). More supporting materials available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/10353.htm
This presentation was made by me for the students of Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India on the emerging trends in web technologies using xml and mashups.
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
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- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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What you will learn during the webinar:
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
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Attacks on counties – USA
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Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
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Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Hideous and messy for screen reader users due to a lack of semantics.
Sighted users can identify areas due to look and feel and presentation. However, this is not explicitly defined within the HTML therefore screen readers cannot convey this information to users.
We’re not the first. Two camps of transcoding methods, each with weaknesses and strengths.
Briefly talk about identifying areas; ditching bits we don’t need and rearranging the rest.
Take visual rendering information, which provides implicit knowledge and make it explicit.
Menu references the cnnNavigation CSS. To create a consistent look and feel all Web pages reference the single cnnNavigation definition.
Upper Ontology: Controlled set of terms that are applicable to all sites. Website specific ontology interfaces the heterogeneous terms of the CSS to the controlled vocabulary of the upper ontology. This implicitly annotates the XHTML, of which there are multiple pages. Creates a hybrid approach. Single accurate annotation applicable to a large number of Web pages.
Note that SADIe:xx refers to our central upper ontology. All website ontologies will refer to this giving a consistent interface. Blue circles represent css classes on the CNN Website. Ontology is about semantics, not names. We can work out cnnNavigation is probably a menu. What does cnnT1 do? All we know is that it’s high priority therefore important. We can change names and the model still works.
User access page as usual but SADIe proxy sits between traffic. On returning page, the proxy matches an ontology to the page using the ontology database. Ontology is queried eg give me all the CSS classes that I can remove Transcode parses DOM looking for elements that reference the returned set of classes from the query and performs appropriate operations. Removebable elements removed, menu pushed to the bottom etc.
Users can enter Website into the form al la Google
More advanced users can refine the transcoding options
We can link a Website to the transcoder. Give users a link for different versions. No additional overhead for developers.
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