"It Brought Me Joy": Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers

要旨

Blind or low-vision (BLV) screen-reader users have a significantly limited experience interacting with desktop websites compared to non-BLV, i.e., sighted users. This digital divide is exacerbated by the incapability to browse the web spatially—an affordance that leverages spatial reasoning, which sighted users often rely on. In this work, we investigate the value of and opportunities for BLV screen-reader users to browse websites spatially (e.g., understanding page layouts). We additionally explore at-scale website layout understanding as a feature of desktop screen readers. We created a technology probe, WebNExt, to facilitate our investigation. Specifically, we conducted a lab study with eight participants and a five-day field study with four participants to evaluate spatial browsing using WebNExt. Our findings show that participants found spatial browsing intuitive and fulfilling, strengthening their connection to the design of web pages. Furthermore, participants envisioned spatial browsing as a step toward reducing the digital divide.

著者
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Ather Sharif
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
David Angel. Rios
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Brian A.. Smith
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3714125

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714125

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Spatial Interactions

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2025-05-01 01:20:00
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