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The Travails of Visually Impaired Web TravellersCarole Goble, Simon Harper and Robert StevensDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Manchester, Oxford RoadManchester M13 9PL, UKEmail carole@cs.man.ac.ukABSTRACTThis paper proposes the inclusion of travel and mobility inthe usability metrics of web design. Hypertext design andusability has traditionally concentrated upon navigationand/or orientation. The notion of travel extends navigationand orientation to include environment, mobility and thepurpose of the travel task. The presence of travel aids are graphic 5; graphic 5; graphic 5; graphic 361; search Figure 2: Figure 1 as rendered to a VI reader.Imagine now that all you hear in those few seconds arethe words in Figure 2. This is what an experienced VIperson hears using Netscape and the Jaws screen reader.Pages are typically read from the top left to the bottomright, one word at a time. Only a small portion of thescreen is viewable at any point. No overall picture is From a survey conducted as part of this research 1 Space for ACM copyright information.Remember to delete this beforesubmitting final version. (Use acolumn break in MS word to stop text