Enhancing usability of digital libraries: Designing help features to support blind and visually impaired users

I Xie, R Babu, TH Lee, MD Castillo, S You… - Information Processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Blind and visually impaired (BVI) users experience vulnerabilities in digital library (DL)
environments largely due to limitations in DL design that prevent them from effectively …

A checklist for assessing blind users' usability of educational smartphone applications

Y Lee, J Lee - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of this study is to develop a checklist which specifically evaluates blind users'
usability of educational smartphone applications. To carry out this task, researchers …

Haze in the digital library: design issues hampering accessibility for blind users

R Babu, I Xie - The Electronic Library, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore design issues hampering the accessibility of
digital libraries (DLs) for first-time blind users. Design/methodology/approach A combination …

Using digital libraries non-visually: understanding the help-seeking situations of blind users.

I Xie, R Babu, S Joo, P Fuller - Information Research: An International …, 2015 - ERIC
Introduction: This study explores blind users' unique help-seeking situations in interacting
with digital libraries. In particular, help-seeking situations were investigated at both the …

Comparison of accessibility and usability of digital libraries in mobile platforms: blind and visually impaired users' assessment

I Xie, TH Lee, HS Lee, S Wang… - Information Research an …, 2023 - informationr.net
Introduction. This study compares 30 blind and visually impaired users' assessment of
accessibility and usability of the two mobile platforms (mobile app and mobile web) of a …

AutoDesc: Facilitating Convenient Perusal of Web Data Items for Blind Users

Y Prakash, M Sunkara, HN Lee, S Jayarathna… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Web data items such as shopping products, classifieds, and job listings are indispensable
components of most e-commerce websites. The information on the data items are typically …

Understanding accessibility problems of blind users on the web

A Savva - 2017 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The web is an eminently visual medium. However, not everyone accesses web content
visually. Research shows that using the web is challenging for blind users. To create a good …

Designing Digital Libraries to Support Blind and Visually Impaired Users: A methodological reflection on a large-scale project

I Xie, S Wang, HS Lee, TH Lee - Qualitative and Quantitative …, 2023 - qqml-journal.net
The purpose of this study is to review and reflect upon the qualitative and quantitative
methods applied and lessons learned in the process of completing the project “Creating …

Toward a purposeful design strategy for visually impaired Web users

R Barpanda, J Reyes, R Babu - First Monday, 2021 - firstmonday.org
The central premise of this research is the belief that using the Web non-visually is
cognitively burdensome and tedious due to its complex, sight-centered design. There exists …

Moblogging Type and Its Relation with Usability and Development of Knowledge Management Skills for Blind Students.

AF Mostafa - Journal of Educational Technology, 2015 - ERIC
The aim of the research is to explore the relation of mobile Blogging (Moblogging-MB) on
the usability and development of Knowledge Management skills for Blind Students. The …