Literature Reviews

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

• When Headers Are Not There: Design and User Evaluation of an Automatic Topicalisation and Labelling Tool to Aid the Exploration of Web Documents by Blind Users

  Jorge Sassaki Resende Silva, André Pimenta Freire, Paula Christina Figueira Cardoso (2022) — Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2022)

  This paper addresses a fundamental problem for blind screen reader users: what happens when web documents lack proper heading markup, eliminating one of the primary navigation strategies available to them. The researchers designed and evaluated a too…

  • screen readers
  • headings
  • natural language processing
  • text segmentation
  • blind users
  • web accessibility
  • information seeking
  • cognitive load