Peer-reviewed research
Perceptions of Blind Adults on Non-Visual Mobile Text Entry
Dylan Gaines and Keith Vertanen, PETRA 2025, Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2025
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- What it is
- Interviews with 12 blind adults about their experience of entering text on mobile phones. The authors report three main themes: the accuracy of dictation, difficulty entering text in noisy places, and difficulty correcting errors.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed conference paper, from the same research group as the Nowrin and Vertanen study. Interviews show experience and opinion rather than measured speed, and 12 people is a small qualitative sample.
Facts taken from this source
- Gaines and Vertanen interviewed 12 blind adults about their experience of entering text on mobile devices.
“We interview 12 blind adults about their experiences with current mobile text” (Abstract)
- 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.
“difficulty entering text in noisy environments, and difficulty correcting errors in entered text” (Abstract)