Title: RefLink: An Interface that Enables People with Motion Impairments to Analyze Web Content and Dynamically Link to References

Authors: Smita Deshpande and Margrit Betke

Date: March 11, 2009

We present RefLink, an interface that allows users to analyze the
content of web page by dynamically linking to an online encyclopedia
such as Wikipedia. Upon opening a webpage, RefLink instantly provides
a list of terms extracted from the webpage and annotates each term by
the number of its occurrences in the page. RefLink uses a
text-to-speech interface to read out the list of terms. The user can
select a term of interest and follow its link to the
encyclopedia. RefLink can thus help the users to perform an informed
and efficient contextual analysis. Initial user testing suggests that
RefLink is a valuable web browsing tool, in particular for people with
motion impairments, because it greatly simplifies the process of
obtaining reference material and performing contextual analysis.