Using simultaneous audio sources to speed-up blind people's web scanning

ABSTRACT

Sighted users are able to sift through a website quickly to find their information of interest. In contrast, screen readers present the information sequentially to blind users, which contrast with the visual presentation on screen that portrays more information at once. We believe that blind users will benefit from multiple simultaneous sound sources while scanning websites with several information items, in order to find their information of interest faster.

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Index Terms

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

    • Signal processing systems

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Natural language interfaces

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

    • Specialized information retrieval

      • Multimedia and multimodal retrieval

        • Speech / audio search

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing profession

      • Assistive technologies

  • User characteristics

    • People with disabilities