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12blind participants
The 2020 study by Hong and colleagues compared 12 blind participants with 12 sighted participants.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“we conducted a lab study with 12 blind and 12 sighted participants”
Reviewing Speech Input with Audio: Differences between Blind and Sighted Users, J. Hong et al., ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 2020, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3382039)- What it measures
- The study had an interview part and a speech input task, so the two groups could be compared on experience and on error detection.
- What it does not show
- A small lab sample. Results describe these 24 people, not the wider population.