  Cooking is an essential activity that enhances quality of life by enabling
individuals to prepare their own meals. However, cooking often requires
multitasking between cooking tasks and following instructions, which can be
challenging to cooks with vision impairments if recipes or other instructions
are inaccessible. To explore the practices and challenges of recipe access
while cooking, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 people with
vision impairments who have cooking experience and four cooking instructors at
a vision rehabilitation center. We also asked participants to edit and give
feedback on existing recipes. We revealed unique practices and challenges to
accessing recipe information at different cooking stages, such as the heavy
burden of hand-washing to interact with recipe readers. We also presented the
preferred information representation and structure of recipes. We then
highlighted design features of technological supports that could facilitate the
development of more accessible kitchen technologies for recipe access. Our work
contributes nuanced insights and design guidelines to enhance recipe
accessibility for people with vision impairments.
