Literature Reviews

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

• Text-to-Speeches: Evaluating the Perception of Concurrent Speech by Blind People

  João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves (2014) — ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper investigates whether blind people can leverage the Cocktail Party Effect—the human ability to focus on one speech source among several while still detecting relevant content in the background—to more efficiently scan digital information. S…

  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • speech perception
  • cocktail party effect
  • spatial audio
  • information scanning
  • neuroplasticity