Towards screen readers with concurrent speech: where to go next?

Blind people rely mostly on the auditory feedback of screen readers to consume digital information. Despite the browsing strategies employed by blind users [3], how fast can information be processed remains a major problem. Sighted people use scanning as a strategy to achieve this goal, by glancing at all content expecting to identify information of interest to be subsequently analyzed with further care. In contrast, screen readers rely on a sequential auditory channel that is impairing a quicker overview of the content, when compared to the visual presentation on screen.