What is known about the impact of impairments on information seeking and searching?

G Berget, A MacFarlane - Journal of the Association for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Information seeking and access are essential for users in all walks of life, from addressing
personal needs such as finding flights to locating information needed to complete work …

Defining, evaluating, and achieving accessible library resources: A review of theories and methods

A Kazuye Kimura - Reference Services Review, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the library and information science literature
related to the accessibility of digital resources by individuals with mental, physical or other …

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 …

Digital Library: Lecturers' Perceptions of Facilitating Learning Resources in the Industrial Era 4.0.

RR Aliyyah, SP Fauziah, A Marini - Journal of Education and E-learning …, 2024 - ERIC
This research explores lecturers' perceptions of digital libraries as a learning resource for
the industrial era 4.0 that can be used anytime and anywhere to solve the low interest in …

Multifaceted evaluation criteria of digital libraries in academic settings: Similarities and differences from different stakeholders

I Xie, S Joo, KK Matusiak - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2018 - Elsevier
Digital library (DL) evaluation is essential to the success and enhancement of DLs.
However, there is a lack of research on the assessment of comprehensive evaluation criteria …

Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: are existing models applicable?

G Berget, A MacFarlane, N Pharo - Journal of Documentation, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose A substantial number of models have been developed over the years, with the
purpose of describing the information seeking and searching of people in various user …

Identification of factors associated with blind users' help‐seeking situations in interacting with digital libraries

I Xie, R Babu, MD Castillo, H Han - Journal of the Association …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A sight‐centered digital library (DL) design with complex structures and multimedia formats
poses significant challenges for blind users. This study is the first attempt to investigate the …

Proposing an information value chain to improve information services to disabled library patrons using assistive technologies

D Potnis, K Mallary - Journal of Information Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Information services offered by academic libraries increasingly rely on assistive
technologies (AT) to facilitate disabled patrons' retrieval and use of information for learning …

Digital inclusion: Lived experiences of students with visual impairment accessibility to web-based information in higher education institutions of Ethiopia

GK Dabi, DN Golga - British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study sought to explore the web-based information accessibility experiences of
students with visual impairment (SVIs) enrolled in two senior universities in Ethiopia. To …

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 …