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WebSound global architecture. The WebSound components shown in figure 1 have been developed in order to furnish a set of functionalities that will permit programmers to easily add new behavioral model onto the application. This set of functionalities primarily consists of: @BULLET the Internet Explorer ActiveX component that will be responsible for the Internet browsing;  

WebSound global architecture. The WebSound components shown in figure 1 have been developed in order to furnish a set of functionalities that will permit programmers to easily add new behavioral model onto the application. This set of functionalities primarily consists of: @BULLET the Internet Explorer ActiveX component that will be responsible for the Internet browsing;  

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The inherent visual nature of Internet browsers makes the Web inaccessible to the visually impaired. Although several nonvisual browsers have been developed, they usually transform the visual content of HTML documents into textual information only, that can be rendered by a text-to-speech converter or a Braille device. The loss of spatial layout an...

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... consideration has lead us to develop not only a new augmented visual browser for blind and sighted users but also a generic Web sonification tool that will be useable by HCI researchers. The WebSound components shown in figure 1 have been developed in order to furnish a set of functionalities that will permit programmers to easily add new behavioral model onto the application. This set of functionalities primarily consists of: ...

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