Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged information overload.
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Information overload in non-visual web transaction: context analysis spells relief
This short ASSETS 2007 poster paper from Jalal Mahmud at Stony Brook University describes ongoing PhD research into reducing the information overload that blind users experience when completing multi-step web transactions — shopping, registrations, b…
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Accessible Skimming: Faster Screen Reading of Web Pages
This doctoral consortium paper presents an automated approach to enable non-visual skimming of web pages for screen reader users. Sighted people routinely skim web content through quick eye movements (saccades) that let them glance over headlines and…
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Opening up access to online documents using essentiality tracks
This paper from Loughborough University presents extensions to the "essentiality and proficiency" approach for improving document accessibility and usability. The core concept is that web page content has varying levels of importance for different us…
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Why Read if You Can Skim: Towards Enabling Faster Screen Reading
This paper investigates how to bring the speed-reading technique of skimming — widely used by sighted readers to quickly get the gist of content — to blind screen reader users who face chronic information overload when listening to web content sequen…
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Using simultaneous audio sources to speed-up blind people's web scanning
This doctoral consortium paper proposes using multiple simultaneous audio sources to help blind users scan web content faster. The core problem is that screen readers present information sequentially — one item at a time — while sighted users can vis…