This project, funded through an NSF CAREER award and the NSF GRFP, aims to facilitate independence for blind authors in producing documents that meet the presentation ‘standards’ expected by sighted readers. This includes gathering design guidelines for tools that aim to help blind people format their docuemnts independetly by: 1) developmenting an impact-weighted taxonomy of common document presentation errors produced by blind authors, 2) exploring blind persons’ mental models and strategies for learning and coping with docuemnt formatting, and how these models and strategies contribute to the success of independent document formatting and layout activities; and 3) by iterating over the previous the development and evaluation of prototype tools.
Researchers: Lourdes Morales-Villaverde, Sri Kurniawan, Sonia Arteaga
Collaborators: Priya Bhattacharjee, Tiffany Thang, Peter Cottrell, Dustin Adams