Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
30 results found tagged web navigation.
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How Older and Younger Adults Differ in Their Approach to Problem Solving on a Complex Website
This IBM Research paper challenges the prevailing assumption that older adults use the web in the same way as younger adults, just more slowly and less accurately. The study examined how 28 participants aged 18-73 navigated a complex newspaper websit…
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Sasayaki: An Augmented Voice-Based Web Browsing Experience
This paper introduces Sasayaki (meaning "whisper" in Japanese), an intelligent voice-based agent designed to augment voice browser navigation for users with visual impairments. The authors, from IBM Research Tokyo and UMBC, identify two key problems …
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Understanding the Role of Age and Fluid Intelligence in Information Search
This study investigates whether age or fluid intelligence is the more important factor driving differences in how people search for information in hierarchical web interfaces. The researchers recruited three groups: 14 younger adults with high fluid …
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Bypassing Lists: Accelerating Screen-Reader Fact-Finding with Guided Tours
This paper investigates whether guided tours — a navigation pattern that linearly links content pages with next/previous controls — can help screen-reader users perform fact-finding tasks more efficiently than traditional index-based navigation, part…
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From Screen Reading to Aural Glancing: Towards Instant Access to Key Page Sections
This paper addresses a fundamental problem in screen reader navigation: while sighted users can glance at a web page to instantly understand its structure and locate relevant sections, screen reader users are forced to listen to content serially, mak…
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Investigating Information Search by People with Cognitive Disabilities
This empirical study investigated how people with cognitive disabilities navigate websites with different content structures and use search engines to find information. Twenty-three participants with various cognitive disabilities (primarily Down syn…
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AcceSS: accessibility through simplification & summarization
This paper from the University of Pittsburgh presents AcceSS, a transcoding system that makes web pages more accessible to visually impaired users through two complementary strategies: simplification and summarization. The authors identify a fundamen…
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TeleWeb: accessible service for web browsing via phone
This paper presents TeleWeb, a telephony service that enables web browsing via any standard telephone using speech and keypad input. Built on top of the HearSay non-visual web browser engine from Stony Brook University, TeleWeb allows users to call a…
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Evaluation of techniques defined in WCAG 2.0 with older people
This paper evaluates two specific WCAG 2.0 techniques — keyboard-based navigation (Guideline 2.1) and design of link purpose (Guideline 2.4) — with older people aged 65 to 80 in two real-world design projects for old-age pensioner associations in Bar…
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Modelling web navigation with the user in mind
This paper introduces the ABBA (Advanced Barrier-free Browser Accessibility) framework, a novel approach to screen reader design that replaces traditional sequential DOM-based navigation with a multi-axial navigation model. The core insight is that c…