Webbee: an architecture for web accessibility for mobile devices

ó In this paper, we introduce WebBee, a client- proxy architecture that combines a web scraping proxy with a Java client to make a platform-independent gateway between small mobile devices, such as mobile phones, and the vast information available on the World Wide Web. The key technology behind WebBee is a web scraping engine that executes ìscraping scripts,î a domain-specic scripting language we designed for the purpose of fetching web pages and selectively extracting information from them. By transmitting to and displaying only this extracted information on the client device, WebBee gives mobile devices with small displays and low network bandwidth clean and quick access to web content customarily designed for desktop browsers. With WebBee, providers do not need to tailor their contents specically for mobile devices.