Fact · Accessibility and health
The 2020 study found that blind users were more highly concerned about speech recognition errors than sighted users.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“blind users were more highly concerned”
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 concern was found in the interview part of the study, alongside a task in which blind participants did no better than sighted participants at finding errors.
- What it does not show
- The paper reports this as a difference in concern, not as a measured difference in outcomes.