Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged information scent.
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Enriching Web Information Scent for Blind Users
This paper investigates whether annotating web links with accessibility scores of their target pages can improve navigation efficiency for blind screen reader users. The core idea draws on information foraging theory: just as sighted users follow vis…
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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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How People Use Presentation to Search for a Link: Expanding the Understanding of Accessibility on the Web
This paper uses eye-tracking to investigate a fundamental question about web accessibility: what exactly does visual presentation provide to sighted users that is lost when content is accessed nonvisually (via screen readers) or on small screens? The…
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"Maps are hard for me": Identifying How Older Adults Struggle with Mobile Maps
This short paper from the University of Illinois at Chicago examines how older adults (aged 60+) use Google Maps on their own mobile devices and identifies the specific accessibility challenges they encounter. While smartphone ownership among US adul…