A Review of Design and Evaluation Practices in Mobile Text Entry for Visually Impaired and Blind Persons

Abstract

Millions of people with vision impairment or vision loss face considerable barriers in usingmobile technology and services due to the difficulty of text entry. In this paper, we review relatedstudies involving the design and evaluation of novel prototypes for mobile text entry for personswith vision loss or impairment. We identify the practices and standards of the research communityand compare them against the practices in research for non-impaired persons. We find that thereare significant shortcomings in the methodological and result-reporting practices in both populationtypes. In highlighting these issues, we hope to inspire more and better quality research in the domainof mobile text entry for persons with and without vision impairment.