Summary: Users who are blind or have low vision prefer dictation over typing with a keyboard whenever possible. Screen readers on touchscreen devices are restricted to a well-defined set of gestures which makes interaction more challenging than on computers.
“ I can do everything you do as a sighted person , but it takes me a little bit longer and it takes me an alternative way of finding it and getting to it. […]The biggest thing we try to help blind people understand is [that] they can do it , but it’s a very different way of doing it.”
— Screen-reader user who is completely blind
A major goal of UX designers is to make things easy for users. For the most part, we’ve made a lot of progress. However, we still have a lot to do to make things easy for people who depend on assistive technology. Users who rely on screen readers to use smartphones have learned that almost anything they want to accomplish will have an enormous interaction cost . Unlike many sighted users who quickly give up or move on when things take extra effort, many screen-reader users have accepted that everything inevitably takes extra time and patience.
Tanner Kohler | Sciencx (2023-05-28T16:00:00+00:00) How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2023/05/28/how-screen-reader-users-type-on-and-control-mobile-devices/
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