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Method and system for providing browser functions on a web page for client-specific accessibility

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsFrances C. Brown, Susan Crayne, Samuel R. Detweiler, Peter Gustav Fairweather, Vicki Lynne Hanson, Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger, Beth Rush Tibbitts

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Abstract

A method and system that provide browser-based functions by injected into a web page a control button, form text field or similar browser-based function control such that both the browser controls and the content of the web page can be transformed for accessibility. A proxy machine retrieves a web page for a user, and then injects the user selected browser function controls into the web page itself. The injected browser controls are supported by web-based application services, preferably resident in an intermediary proxy machine, for producing web content that is representative of that function. The web page is transformed into a style that is accessible for that particular user, such as magnifying the page, reformatting background schemes, etc. The user can select which browser function buttons are injected into the web page, and as the web page is transformed for accessibility, the browser controls on the page are likewise transformed.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A method for providing browser function accessibility on a web page on a computer network, said method comprising:

connecting a proxy machine between a client device and a web content server;
receiving at the proxy machine a content web page from the web content server requested by the client device;
injecting at least one browser-based function form into the content web page, said at least one browser-based function form activating at least one browser based function to generate a browser functioning web page, wherein the at least one browser-based function form and the content web page are transcoded together for accessibility, and wherein the at least one browser-based function form is a user-defined button that replicates a previously-existing button on the content web page, wherein the user-defined button provides greater user accessibility than the previously-existing button, and wherein the user-defined button is injected by a dedicated transcoder in the proxy machine in accordance with a user data base that describes a visual limitation of a user;
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sending the browser functioning web page to the client device.

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Facts

Application: 11/203,831Filed 13 Aug 2005 · division
Priority: 24 Sep 2001
Published: US 2006/0031759 A19 Feb 2006
Granted: 18 Nov 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 67/561
Provisioning of proxy services: adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 16/9577
Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation: optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
H04L 67/565
Provisioning of proxy services: conversion or adaptation of application format or content

Family

Application09/961,938Parent of this division · filed 24 Sep 2001
US 2006/0031759 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Feb 2006
US 7,010,581 B2Parent of this division
US 2003/0061309 A1Published application
US 7,454,526 B2This patent

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