A Case Study Documenting the Development of Job Assist: A Speech Based Job Search System for Individuals with Visual Impairments

摘要

Web accessibility is an improving issue but still an issue nonetheless. The Job Assist system documentedwithin this report addresses the accessibility issue by enabling users with visual impairments to access joband salary information using spoken dialogue interaction through a standalone desktop application. Thiscase study provides information on our practical experience developing the system as well as ourexperience with Microsoft’s Windows Speech API, Bing Speech API and Language UnderstandingIntelligent Service (LUIS). In our project we were most severely challenged in our attempt to make oursystem usable by two groups of users, native English speakers and non-native English speakers of Indianorigin. We argue that the solutions that we employed to address these challenges may be of value to otherpractitioners in similar contexts.