Literature Reviews

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

• Accessible Skimming: Faster Screen Reading of Web Pages

  Faisal Ahmed (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  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…

  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • web accessibility
  • text summarization
  • natural language processing
  • skimming
  • information overload
  • aural browsing
  • cognitive load

• Why Read if You Can Skim: Towards Enabling Faster Screen Reading

  Faisal Ahmed, Yevgen Borodin, Yury Puzis, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  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…

  • screen readers
  • skimming
  • speed reading
  • blind users
  • text summarization
  • information overload
  • non-visual interaction
  • user study
  • cognitive load