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Social networking is a platform to build social relation among people around the world. Facebook is one of the applications widely used by everyone. Now we can share information, ideas, knowledge through social networking sites (SNS). These activities are enjoyed by everyone without any barriers. In this paper we discuss the navigation issues in Facebook by visually impaired (VI) user who using screen reader. Our study focuses on important navigation activities by VI user, explaining navigation barriers and suggesting solutions.
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Ramayah, B., Jaafar, A., Yatim, N.F.M. (2013). Visually Impaired User’s Navigation Experiences in Facebook. In: Zaman, H.B., Robinson, P., Olivier, P., Shih, T.K., Velastin, S. (eds) Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_71
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