Literature Reviews

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

• How Older and Younger Adults Differ in Their Approach to Problem Solving on a Complex Website

  Peter G. Fairweather (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This IBM Research paper challenges the prevailing assumption that older adults use the web in the same way as younger adults, just more slowly and less accurately. The study examined how 28 participants aged 18-73 navigated a complex newspaper websit…

  • aging
  • web navigation
  • cognitive accessibility
  • usability
  • older adults
  • problem solving
  • web design
  • user behavior
  • cognitive load

• Identifying Behavioral Strategies of Visually Impaired Users to Improve Access to Web Content

  Darren Lunn, Simon Harper, Sean Bechhofer (2011) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a methodology for identifying how visually impaired screen reader users develop coping strategies when encountering inaccessible web content, then uses those strategies to inform the design of transcoding solutions. The researcher…

  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • transcoding
  • coping strategies
  • user behavior
  • visual impairment
  • ARIA

• 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