You Shall Know a Forum by the Words they Keep: Analyzing Language Use in Accessibility Forums for Blind Users

A corpus comparison of 1000 accessibility-forum threads (JAWS, NV Access) against 1000 topic-matched general-forum threads (Reddit) shows accessibility-forum language is more readable, lexically denser, more proper-noun and first-person heavy, more past-focused, and less abstract, with significantly

Nithiya Venkatraman (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States), Anand Aiyer (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States), Yash Prakash (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States), and Vikas Ashok (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States)

10 September 2024

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doi: 10.1145/3648188.3675151
isbn: 979-8-4007-0595-3
name: You Shall Know a Forum by the Words they Keep: Analyzing Language Use in Accessibility Forums for Blind Users
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acm_url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3648188.3675151
authors: Nithiya Venkatraman, Anand Aiyer, Yash Prakash, Vikas Ashok
doi_url: https://doi.org/10.1145/3648188.3675151
license: CC BY 4.0
summary: A corpus comparison of 1000 accessibility-forum threads (JAWS, NV Access) against 1000 topic-matched general-forum threads (Reddit) shows accessibility-forum language is more readable, lexically denser, more proper-noun and first-person heavy, more past-focused, and less abstract, with significantly
published: 2024-09-10
conference: HT '24: 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Poznan, Poland, September 10-13, 2024
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displayAuthor: Nithiya Venkatraman (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States), Anand Aiyer (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States), Yash Prakash (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States), and Vikas Ashok (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, United States)
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