What is Multimodal Access?
Multimodal technology is a promising candidate of future human machine interfaces which can improve Web accessibility within various conditions and environments of the users. For example, these days we can access the Web using various devices including mobile phones, PDA, car navigation system and home appliances. However, the concrete access methods strongly depend on the type of devices and services, and are quite different from each other. Some of those applications are based on W3C standards. However, many are based on proprietary platforms and technologies. So a global and universal standardized mechanism which applies to various kinds of devices and services is required to materialize “One Web” which lets any person to access a specific information using any modalities on any devices from anywhere at any time.
