Paper Info
Title
Google news: how user-friendly is it for the blind?
Abstract
Being able to read text, find out information and know about the latest news has always been a challenge for those who cannot access the printed version, such as the visually-impaired. The advent of the Web has been a big step in the right direction for blind people to obtain up-to-date information on the internet. Many portals and Web sites offer online services for up-to-date news. In this paper our aim is to evaluate how easy and rewarding it is for blind people to access this. For this purpose, we are focusing on the well-known online service provided by Google, i.e. Google News as a case study. In order to truly benefit from access to the information available on the Web, the page interface must be simple and easy to use by everyone, including people who have to use assistive technologies. In this work we analyze not only the accessibility of the service offered by Google for its News, but also in particular the usability when interacting via screen reader.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2038476.2038523
SIGDOC
Keywords
Field
DocType
web site,google news,well-known online service,up-to-date information,online service,case study,latest news,blind people,up-to-date news,big step,assistive technology,accessibility,user interfaces,service provider,user interface,usability
Screen reader,World Wide Web,News aggregator,Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,User Friendly,User interface,Multimedia,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
8
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Barbara Leporini142846.45