Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged text summarization.
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Gist Summaries for Visually Impaired Surfers
This paper from the University of Manchester addresses a fundamental problem in web accessibility for visually impaired users: the inability to quickly assess a web page's relevance before committing to having the entire page read aloud by a screen r…
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A Web Navigation Tool for the Blind
This short paper from Oxford Brookes University and the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) presents BrookesTalk, a prototype speech-output web browser designed to help blind users make rapid decisions about whether a web page is useful to …
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Accessible Skimming: Faster Screen Reading of Web Pages
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…
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Why Read if You Can Skim: Towards Enabling Faster Screen Reading
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…