Towards Universal Accessibility on the Web: Do Grammar Checking Tools Improve Text Readability?

Kaushik, Hitesh Mohan; Eika, Evelyn; Sandnes, Frode Eika

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_19

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“…Accessibility issues associated with screen reader users have also been identified in websites of higher education [ 5 ]. The basic readability of the text affects all readers [ 6 – 9 ], and it has been demonstrated that readability features such as sentence length affect screen reading performance [ 10 ]. It is nearly impossible to access some content through screen readers.…”

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Towards More Efficient Screen Reader Web Access with Automatic Summary Generation and Text Tagging

Sarwar

Eika

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Readers with 20/20 vision can easily read text and quickly perceive information to get an overview of the information within a text. This is more challenging for readers who rely on screen readers. This study investigated factors affecting successful screen reading in order to shed light on what contributes towards the improvement of screen reading access. Text extraction, summarization, and representation techniques were explored. The goal of this work leads to the development of a new summarization technique, referred to as On Demand Summary Generation and Text Tagging (ODSG&TT). This technique makes use of a summarization algorithm and a text tagging algorithm developed by Algorithmia, which enables on the fly and on-demand summarization of text and keyword generation. The focus of the screen reader is transferred to the keywords using a button control. The intention is to provide summaries with minimum user navigation effort to simplify the screen reading process.

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Towards More Efficient Screen Reader Web Access with Automatic Summary Generation and Text Tagging

Sarwar

Eika

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…On the other hand, although computer science is a practical field involving development and coding, it also involves reading of complex documentation and writing of the same documentation although the focus on documenting code has become less than what is used to be as code is to be self-documenting. Another speculation is that students may have an inflated belief in writing tools such as Grammarly [24].…”

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Where Are the Students? A Study of Norwegian Technology Students’ Perceptions of Emerging Trends in Higher Education

Sandnes

2020

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Teachers in higher education in Norway have over the last decade reported reduced physical attendance in lectures, students not using the textbooks, and low academic performance. Also, there is an intensified institutional pressure to make use of digital tools and flipped classroom paradigms. To obtain better insight into students' perceptions of these issues a class of computer science students' perceptions were probed using a comprehensive questionnaire. The results confirm some of the claims that students want more digital learning such as videos, but perhaps not as black and white as it is often presented. Implications of the results is that one should not simply follow a single approach but employ an array of varied learning activities and materials.

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“…For example, there are two kinds of language styles and styles; active or passive language. The writer needs one more dominant writing with an active voice (Kaushik et al, 2020). There are times when the writer also uses the passive voice, but the author himself prefers to have a more active voice sentence pattern because he feels the author's mind is more robust when using active voice; for example, the writer's presence mind there is powerful.…”

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Effectiveness of online Grammarly application in improving academic writing: review of experts experience

Perdana

Manullang

Masri

2021

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This study aims to discuss the effectiveness of the Grammarly online application in improving academic writing through the experience of reviewing published papers. For that, we have reviewed a variety of literature and listened to the experiences of other academics published in various international journals. We chose descriptive qualitative content analysis. For example, it involves an in-depth analysis of each expert's experience with an exploratory phenomenological approach. To do this, we involve a coding analysis system, critically evaluate the content and ensure the results are valid and reliable. As for literature sources, we do with the help of the Google Doc application, Eric Publications, Google scholars, and other online literature sources. We do this considering that we did this study in a dynamic era and responded to the pandemic protocol and public restriction in Indonesia. We follow the guidelines of descriptive qualitative studies experts in academic writing and application technology. The result is that most academics say that the Grammarly online application is very suitable for use by writers because its usefulness is beneficial in tracking writing errors.

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Towards Universal Accessibility on the Web: Do Grammar Checking Tools Improve Text Readability?

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Towards More Efficient Screen Reader Web Access with Automatic Summary Generation and Text Tagging

Towards More Efficient Screen Reader Web Access with Automatic Summary Generation and Text Tagging

Where Are the Students? A Study of Norwegian Technology Students’ Perceptions of Emerging Trends in Higher Education

Effectiveness of online Grammarly application in improving academic writing: review of experts experience

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