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2022-09-12: Summary of "Enabling Convenient Online Collaborative Writing for Low Vision Screen Magnifier Users"

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In the recent era, online document editors have become popular because online document editors can be shared with others and parallelly many people can edit that document. We can also see the history of those changes online. We can set various levels of access for online document editors, for example, we can give access to viewers, editors, or commenters.    Low-vision users use all these features by using screen readers. However, the excessive panning required to use these features is tedious for low-vision users. It is a very time-consuming task for low vision users, even for performing basic activities on online document editors. To see comments for any text or history of changes, users must scroll to the right and left end of the page. Once they scroll, they must remember the location of text. Figure 1 in Lee et al. In our paper "Enabling Convenient Online Collaborative Writing for Low Vision Screen Magnifier Users", we created a browser extension  that displays pop u...