Visually-Impaired People Studying via eBook: Investigating Current Use and Potential for Improvement

Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Conference on Education and E-Learning Pub Date : 2022-11-21 DOI:10.1145/3578837.3578879

B. Leporini, M. Buzzi

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Everyday activities and tasks should be easy to perform for everyone, especially in an educational context, in order to foster inclusivity and assure equal opportunities for all. In this paper, we investigate strategies and issues experienced by visually impaired people when studying via eBook. An online survey was designed to investigate preferences regarding the different formats and understand what types of actions are possible and desirable when using eBooks in an educational context. We collected the views and experiences of 75 visually-impaired people, which revealed the need to develop tools that can provide both full accessibility and high usability when reading for study. Visually impaired people would like to rely on the same widely-used strategies that sighted people use when studying a text. In addition, 92% of the visually-impaired people participating in the online survey declared they were interested in a (new) reading app. The results could orient the design of new digital reading tools and functionalities that can improve interaction.

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视障人士通过电子书学习:调查目前的使用和改进潜力

日常活动和任务对每个人来说都应该很容易完成，特别是在教育背景下，以促进包容性并确保所有人的机会平等。本文旨在探讨视障人士在使用电子书学习时所遇到的策略和问题。一项在线调查旨在调查人们对不同格式的偏好，并了解在教育环境中使用电子书时可能和可取的行为类型。我们收集了75名视障人士的观点和经验，这些观点和经验表明，需要开发一种工具，在学习阅读时既能提供完全的可访问性，又能提供高可用性。视障人士在学习文本时喜欢使用与正常人相同的广泛使用的策略。此外，参与在线调查的视障人士中有92%表示他们对一款(新的)阅读应用程序感兴趣。研究结果可以指导新的数字阅读工具和功能的设计，从而改善互动。

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