Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Faster Text-to-Speeches: Enhancing Blind People's Information Scanning with Faster Concurrent Speech

  João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper investigates how blind users can scan digital information more efficiently by comparing two approaches: increasing speech rate (the traditional method) versus using concurrent speech (multiple simultaneous voices). The research leverages t…

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • text-to-speech
  • speech rate
  • concurrent speech
  • auditory perception
  • cocktail party effect
  • information scanning

• Scanning for Digital Content: How Blind and Sighted People Perceive Concurrent Speech

  João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper investigates whether blind and sighted people can leverage concurrent speech — multiple audio streams playing simultaneously — to more efficiently scan and identify relevant digital content, exploiting the well-known Cocktail Party Effect.…

  • visual impairment
  • concurrent speech
  • auditory interface
  • screen reader
  • cocktail party effect
  • spatial audio
  • information scanning
  • universal design