Abstract
Emara, I. (2025). “Talking the Same Language”: The Influence of Sharing a Visual Impairment Identity Between Researchers and Participants on Enhancing Participant Recruitment and Fostering Rapport During Interviews With Blind Individuals. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251320858 (Original work published 2025)
The authors would like to alert readers to changes in their above-listed article. The following reference has been removed from the article’s citation list:
Jones, K. M., Leonards, U., & Metatla, O. (2024). “I don’t really get involved in that way”: Investigating blind and visually impaired individuals’ experiences of joint attention with sighted people. In Proceedings of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1–16). ACM.
The following sentence, referencing this citation, has been removed from the text:
“Some studies use advertisements placed on bulletins, newsletters, or printed newspapers as a means of recruiting interview participants with visual impairments (Jones et al., 2024). Unfortunately, such methods are not accessible to blind individuals, as they are unable to read printed or visual publicity materials.”
The removal of this sentence and citation were prompted by the authors being made aware of their possible misinterpretation of the citation’s research methods, specifically around the research’s recruitment of participants.
The concern raised was that this sentence might incorrectly suggest that Jones et al. (2024) used inaccessible print-based methods to recruit blind and visually impaired participants. The authors’ misinterpretation was derived from the traditional use of the term “newsletter” to imply an inaccessible printed medium. The Journal Editor confirmed that the correction does not alter the overall results or conclusions of the article.
The authors apologize to readers and to Jones et al. (2024) for this inadvertent error and thank them for the opportunity to correct the record.