Literature Reviews

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

• How People Use Presentation to Search for a Link: Expanding the Understanding of Accessibility on the Web

  Caroline Jay, Robert Stevens, Mashhuda Glencross, Alan Chalmers (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper uses eye-tracking to investigate a fundamental question about web accessibility: what exactly does visual presentation provide to sighted users that is lost when content is accessed nonvisually (via screen readers) or on small screens? The…

  • eye tracking
  • visual presentation
  • screen readers
  • nonvisual access
  • web navigation
  • text-only pages
  • information scent
  • cognitive processing
  • user research