How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices
The goal of this article is to shed light on how screen-reader users accomplish some of the most basic actions on smartphones: typing and navigating. Users who rely on screen readers to use smartphones have learned that almost anything they want to accomplish will have an enormous interaction cost. Technology assumes users can see, technology has been designed around sight. The largest drain on a smartphone battery is the enormous, bright screen — not the speakers or the haptic feedback.