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Improving collaborative writing for the blind

Improving collaborative writing for the blind Improving Collaborative Writing for the Blind John G. Schoeberlein and Yuanqiong Wang Towson University 7800 York Road Towson, Maryland 21252-0001 USA Jschoe4@students.towson.edu and ywangtu@gmail.com Abstract Collaborative writing has become essential in organizations. However, current collaborative writing tools are not accessible and usable, which prevents persons who are blind from independently participating in group work when collaborative writing activities are involved. Based on several usability studies, we present a prototype of an interface that improves the collaborative writing experience for persons who are blind. Introduction Collaborative writing has become essential for exchanging and sharing ideas in organizations. Unfortunately, persons who are blind encounter accessibility and usability issues, while attempting collaborative writing activities [3]. This makes it harder for them to fully contribute to the group work, as they would like. The focus of our research has been on identifying these issues and proposing interface design solutions. A baseline [3] and pilot [4] usability study were conducted in order to identify the accessibility and usability issues while writing collaboratively. These studies show that the current interface design of the collaborative writing tool, specifically the lack of context for the revisions or comments presented in a document, cause usability issues [4]. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing Association for Computing Machinery

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2013 by ACM Inc.
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1558-2337
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10.1145/2535803.2535805
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Improving Collaborative Writing for the Blind John G. Schoeberlein and Yuanqiong Wang Towson University 7800 York Road Towson, Maryland 21252-0001 USA Jschoe4@students.towson.edu and ywangtu@gmail.com Abstract Collaborative writing has become essential in organizations. However, current collaborative writing tools are not accessible and usable, which prevents persons who are blind from independently participating in group work when collaborative writing activities are involved. Based on several usability studies, we present a prototype of an interface that improves the collaborative writing experience for persons who are blind. Introduction Collaborative writing has become essential for exchanging and sharing ideas in organizations. Unfortunately, persons who are blind encounter accessibility and usability issues, while attempting collaborative writing activities [3]. This makes it harder for them to fully contribute to the group work, as they would like. The focus of our research has been on identifying these issues and proposing interface design solutions. A baseline [3] and pilot [4] usability study were conducted in order to identify the accessibility and usability issues while writing collaboratively. These studies show that the current interface design of the collaborative writing tool, specifically the lack of context for the revisions or comments presented in a document, cause usability issues [4].

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ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Sep 1, 2013

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