Making Life Easier for the Visually Impaired Web Searcher: It Is Now Clearer How This Should and Can Be Done, but Implementation Lags. A Review of: Sahib, N. G., Tombros, A., & Stockman, T. (2012). A comparative analysis of the information-seeking behavior of visually impaired and sighted searchers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(2), 377–391. doi: 10.1002/asi.21696

Making Life Easier for the Visually Impaired Web Searcher: It Is Now Clearer How This Should and Can Be Done, but Implementation Lags. A Review of: Sahib, N. G., Tombros, A., & Stockman, T. (2012). A comparative analysis of the information-seeking behavior of visually impaired and sighted searchers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(2), 377–391. doi: 10.1002/asi.21696

<b>Objective</b> – To determine how the behaviour of visually impaired persons significantly differs from that of sighted persons in the carrying out of complex search tasks on the internet.<br><b>Design</b> – A comparative observational user study, plus semi-structured...

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Main Author: R. Laval Hunsucker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2013-03-01
Series:Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Subjects:
Web searching
User interfaces
Usability
User behaviour
Visually impaired users
Online Access:http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/18556/14842

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