Sessions at IA Summit 2012 about Literacy

Sunday 25th March 2012

• Search Strategies of Users with Low-Literacy Skills

  by Angela Colter

  Having low literacy skills makes reading, understanding and using written information more difficult in any medium, but it presents a special set of challenges for finding information on the Web. This exploratory eye tracking study looked at how adults with low literacy skills use search. Watch video clips of participants' information-seeking strategies and learn what we, as web professionals, can do to address their needs.

  • Literacy
  • Search

  At 8:30am to 8:50am, Sunday 25th March

  In Empire I, Hyatt Regency New Orleans

  Coverage slide deck