Literature Reviews

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

• Enriching Web Information Scent for Blind Users

  Markel Vigo, Barbara Leporini, Fabio Paternò (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper investigates whether annotating web links with accessibility scores of their target pages can improve navigation efficiency for blind screen reader users. The core idea draws on information foraging theory: just as sighted users follow vis…

  • web accessibility
  • blind users
  • screen readers
  • information scent
  • information foraging
  • adaptive navigation
  • automated evaluation
  • web usability

• Health Problem Solving by Older Persons Using a Complex Government Web Site: Analysis and Implications for Web Design

  Sara J. Czaja, Joseph Sharit, Chin Chin Lee, Sankaran N. Nair, Mark S. Hernández, Nelida Arana, Shih-Han Fu (2011) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This study examined how older adults (ages 50-85) navigate Medicare.gov to complete a realistic health-related task: finding quality ratings for home health care agencies. The researchers recruited 112 participants stratified by age decade (50s, 60s,…

  • older adults
  • cognitive accessibility
  • health information seeking
  • web usability
  • government websites
  • problem solving
  • hierarchical task analysis
  • cognitive aging