Updates on the progress and potential of the WebAnywhere web-based screen reader.

1. WebAnywhere: Experiences with a New Delivery Model for Access Technology Jeffrey P. Bigham ROC HCI Group Department of Computer Science University of Rochester Richard Ladner Department of Computer Science University of Washington Wendy Chisholm Department of Computer Science University of Washington

3. Bighamet al. “WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go” W4A 2008.

4. WebAnywhere Traffic

5. Worldwide Audience

6. Interesting Qualities Free - users need an affordable option - something to fall back on No Installation - no installation means usable in more places Low-Cost Distribution & Updates - each time users visit WA they get the newest version Who would actually use WebAnywhere?

7. Who Not everyone was blind People with reading difficulties People with low vision Web developers Educators People from all over the world!

10. Accessibility By Demonstration Bighamet al. “Accessibility by Demonstration: Enabling End Users to Guide Developers to WebAccessibility Solutions.” Coming Soon.

11. Design to Read

12. Leverage WA in Your Research http://webanywhere.googlecode.com

13. WA in 3 Steps and 30 Seconds Apache with PHP svn checkout http://webanywhere.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wa Access at http://<yourhost>/wa/

14. THE ENDhttp://webanywhere.googlecode.comjbigham@cs.rochester.eduThanks to NSF, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Ivona