Information Seeking

The process of actively looking for specific information to answer a question, complete a task, or satisfy an information need. Information seeking on the web involves formulating queries, navigating search results, scanning pages for relevant content, and synthesizing information across sources. Information-seeking tasks are particularly challenging for screen reader users due to sequential navigation constraints — while sighted users can visually scan a page to assess relevance in seconds, screen reader users must invest significantly more time traversing content to locate answers within dense, information-heavy pages.