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Gaines and Vertanen identified three main themes in interviews with blind adults, two of which were difficulty entering text in noisy environments and difficulty correcting errors.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“difficulty entering text in noisy environments, and difficulty correcting errors in entered text”
Perceptions of Blind Adults on Non-Visual Mobile Text Entry, Dylan Gaines and Keith Vertanen, PETRA 2025, Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2025, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors list these as the primary themes, with dictation accuracy as the first of the three in their summary of the findings.
- What it does not show
- Themes from a small interview study. The paper reports them as experiences and opinions, not as measured rates.