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Understanding Blind and Low Vision Users' Attitudes Towards Spatial Interactions in Desktop Screen Readers

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Desktop screen readers as a web navigation mechanism for BLV users are tedious and frozen in time, especially in the face of richer ways of presenting spatial information such as tactile and touchscreen devices. In our work, we consider what it means to create and evaluate systems that can present a similarly rich, spatial interaction mechanism plugged into existing screen reader paradigms. We present a formative study conducted with SpaceNav, a custom screen reader that utilizes spatial input and output to navigate two different web applications. We present results from this study, and discuss a new browser extension we are implementing based on our formative study feedback to more robustly test spatial interactions in the context of real world websites. To close, we describe our goals for evaluating the new web extension in a future study.

Source: International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

DOI: 10.1145/3597638.3614490

Authors: Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, David A Rios, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Avery Reyna, Cecilia Zhang, Brian A. Smith

Institutions: University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Central Florida, Bryn Mawr College

Language: English

Topic: Digital Accessibility for Disabilities

Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4387773448

FWCI: 1.677

Cites: 31

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10