Literature Reviews

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

• Measuring Website Usability for Visually Impaired People - A Modified GOMS Analysis

  Henrik Tonn-Eichstädt (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper adapts the GOMS (Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection rules) model — a well-established HCI method for estimating task execution times — to measure website usability specifically for blind screen reader users. The author argues that access…

  • screen readers
  • usability
  • web accessibility
  • GOMS
  • braille
  • blind users
  • evaluation methods
  • navigation strategies
  • efficiency

• How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People

  João Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris Kitani, Chieko Asakawa (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents a fine-grained thematic analysis of user behaviour during indoor assisted navigation to understand when and why navigation errors occur even when the underlying localisation system is accurate. The research uses NavCog, a sm…

  • indoor navigation
  • blind
  • orientation and mobility
  • guide dog
  • white cane
  • Bluetooth beacons
  • wayfinding
  • user behavior
  • error recovery
  • navigation strategies