Web Access Gateway Software -OATS Forge

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What the authors say:

1. To make the Web easier to access for print-disabled users (such as users with low vision or dyslexia);
2. To allow speakers of other languages to view Web pages written in them, when the encodings are not supported by their browsers.  (This uses GIFs - see GIF Patent Problems and the Language Viewer)

The gateway works by intercepting your Web browsing in such a way that the gateway computer can sort out the Web pages before you see them.  It works with all browsers and operating systems as long as the browser supports forms [1].  You can adjust it to work the way you want to.

If you need an academic paper about the gateway, try this:

Silas S Brown & Peter Robinson. A World Wide Web Mediator for Users with Low Vision.  CHI 2001 Workshop No. 14.  PDF format (hosted at ics.forth.gr)

The gateway can also (sometimes) be used as a rudimentary viewer of such things as Flash and WAP, if you have no other means of displaying them.  In the case of WAP, the intention is that print-disabled users can use WAP sites on their normal desktop browsers.