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SoundGlance: Briefing the Glanceable Cues of Web Pages for Screen Reader Users

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Jaeyoon Song,

Kiroong Choe,

Jaemin Jo,

Jinwook SeoAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: LBW1821, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312865

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

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Screen readers have become a core assistive technology for blind web users to browse web pages. Although screen readers can convey the textual information or structural properties of web pages, they cannot deliver their overall impression. Such a limitation hinders blind web users from obtaining an overview of the website, which non-blind people can do in a short time. As such, we present SoundGlance, a novel application that briefly delivers an auditory summary of web pages. SoundGlance supports the screen reader users by converting the important glanceable cues of the pages into sound. The feasibility of prototype was examined in a pilot study with fourteen blind people. Several practical insights were derived from the experiment.

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SoundGlance: Briefing the Glanceable Cues of Web Pages for Screen Reader Users
1. Human-centered computing
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CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2019

3673 pages

ISBN:9781450359719

DOI:10.1145/3290607

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University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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TU Wien, Austria
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University of Melbourne, Australia

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