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Record W337176922

Web-4-All Web Accessibility through Sight, Sound and Touch

2003· article· en· W337176922 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Lawrence Euteneier

Bibliographic record

VenueInformation technology and disabilities · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Accessibility for Disabilities
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWeb accessibilityInternet privacyBusinessWeb Accessibility InitiativeGovernment (linguistics)Public relationsThe InternetCharterWorld Wide WebWeb standardsWeb developmentPolitical scienceComputer scienceLawWeb application security
DOInot available

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION Canada's commitment to, and responsibility for promoting and ensuring a fair and egalitarian society are clearly expressed in such documents as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Employment Equity Act, and, more recently for federal government employees, the Policy on the Duty to Accommodate Persons with Disabilities in the Federal Public Service. There has been a growing recognition that equal access to electronic information and services must be provided, and that less than total access for all could become extremely costly, both in social and economic terms. Anything less undermines the values of equality that have shaped this nation, and undermines economic opportunities. With more and more information and services available on the Internet, governments are increasingly concerned that the services they provide are equally accessible to all potential users, including Canadians with disabilities and those with literacy challenges. The Government of Canada is supporting a wide range of initiatives to promote accessible Web content and standards. Industry Canada's Web Accessibility Office is working with other federal government departments to develop accessibility standards for Government of Canada Web sites. It is also heading up an innovative pilot program that is placing more than 1000 assistive technology devices, called Web-4-All, in public Internet access sites across the country. With Web-4-All, users simply swipe a smart card into computers equipped with the technology, and their preferences, such as having text enlarged or read aloud, are instantly loaded. The Web-4-all pilot initiative was made possible with the help of supporters and sponsors such as the University of Toronto's Assistive Technology Resource Centre, which developed Web4-All under contract to Industry Canada, and Bell Canada, Hitachi Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada, who donated the smart card technology used in this project. Industry Canada's commitment to this project underscores the importance of ensuring that the benefits of information technology are available to all Canadians. The Government of Canada's leadership in this regard complements its Innovation Strategy, which is part of Canada's program to build a more innovative economy and society. WHAT IS WEB-4-ALL? Web-4-All is an innovative technology that enables people with disabilities and low literacy levels, as well as seniors and people unfamiliar with computers, to use the Internet on public access computers. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.169
Threshold uncertainty score0.430

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1290.036

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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