dc.contributor.advisor | Eika, Evelyn | |
dc.contributor.author | Kadayat, Bam Bahadur | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-05-27T12:44:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-05-27T12:44:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8647 | |
dc.description | Master i universell utforming av IKT | en |
dc.description.abstract | This research investigates how the length of sentence impacts on the readability of the web for blind users
and explores the appropriateness of the range of sentence to make the web content readable and
understandable. Readability on the web is a challenging task for blind users because blind users rely on a
screen reader to read the text with a speech synthesizer and they often experience difficulties in re-tracking
the beginning of the sentence as the screen reader does not read it back. This research assessed if the
length of a sentence affects the readability of the web in terms of workload for the blind users, and if so,
what would be the appropriate sentence length to make the web content readable and understandable. An
experiment was performed with twenty-one participants and employing a within-subject design for
assigned conditions to the participants. A one-way repeated measure ANOVA was used to find out the
significance of variance among the five prototypes used. The researcher also applied a comprehension
test to indicate whether the users understand the content of the prototype to investigate the appropriate
length of the sentence. The finding reveals that there is a significant impact of sentence length on the
readability of the web for blind users. The majority of participants performed better in prototype B which had
16-20 word-length in a sentence. Since participants needed less mental and temporal demand, they had
less frustration that resulted in better performance in prototype B. The limitations of the research are that the
participants were not the actual blind users; instead, they were blindfolded during the experiment. This
study suggests that 16-20-word length in a sentence can be appropriate for the blind user to perform
readability on the web without much workload. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University | en |
dc.subject | VDP::Teknologi: 500::Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi: 550::Datateknologi: 551 | en |
dc.subject | VDP::Teknologi: 500::Informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi: 550::Telekommunikasjon: 552 | en |
dc.subject | Readability | en |
dc.subject | Workloads | en |
dc.subject | Sentence lengths | en |
dc.subject | Accessibility | en |
dc.subject | Universal designs | en |
dc.subject | Web accessibility | en |
dc.title | Impact of Sentence-length on the Readability of Web for Blind Users | en |
dc.type | Master thesis | en |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |