Comparing sighted and blind users task performance in responsive and non-responsive web design

摘要

This article highlights the necessity to go beyond accessibility guidelines in interactive web design, and more specifically in new web trends, as well as the importance of investigations concerning universal web design usability for blind users. In this work, we compared the task performance of blind and sighted users in responsive and non-responsive web design. The results comparing task performance in responsive and non-responsive Web sites indicate that when responsive web design involves deep structures with fewer choices and more levels, it might be considered a design strategy that does not work well for both sighted and blind user populations, showing that a reasonable criterion that should be considered is to design Web sites with good usability for blind as well as sighted users.