Conversational Glanceability

A proposed design approach that uses conversational AI agents to provide blind and visually impaired users with the equivalent of visual glanceability—the ability to quickly scan and identify content of interest on a page. Sighted users can rapidly skim visual layouts to locate relevant stories, headings, or data, but screen reader users must navigate sequentially through cluttered interfaces. Conversational glanceability support would allow users to ask an AI agent to describe the layout, summarize available content, and navigate directly to areas of interest through natural language interaction, effectively bridging the gap between visual and non-visual information foraging.