How the Alt Text Gets Made: What Roles and Processes of Alt Text Creation Can Teach Us About Inclusive Imagery

EJ Edwards, M Gilbert, E Blank… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Many studies within Accessible Computing have investigated image accessibility, from what
should be included in alternative text (alt text), to possible automated, human-in-the-loop, or …

Building the Habit of Authoring Alt Text: Design for Making a Change

S Bellscheidt, H Metcalf, D Pham… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Alternative (alt) text is essential for the accessibility of images to screen reader users. Alt text
can be authored by end users or generated automatically using machine learning …

Toward supporting quality alt text in computing publications

C Williams, L de Greef, E Harris III, L Findlater… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
While researchers have examined alternative (alt) text for social media and news contexts,
few have studied the status and challenges for authoring alt text of figures in computing …

Rich representations of visual content for screen reader users

MR Morris, J Johnson, CL Bennett… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Alt text (short for" alternative text") is descriptive text associated with an image in HTML and
other document formats. Screen reader technologies speak the alt text aloud to people who …

Wataa: Web alternative text authoring assistant for improving web content accessibility

H Jeong, M Chun, H Lee, SY Oh, H Jung - Companion proceedings of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Alternative (alt) text is essential for people with visual impairments to acquire information
about image content through a screen reader. However, collecting images and creating alt …

Dimensional alt text: Enhancing Spatial Understanding through Dimensional Layering of Image Descriptions for Screen Reader Users

J Cho, HJ Kim - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Over the past decade, there has been a significant improvement in the quality of images we
see on the web, and image processing technologies such as monocular depth estimation …

ALT text and basic accessibility

T McEwan, B Weerts - 2007 - napier-repository.worktribe.com
Recent surveys have shown that the majority of websites are not accessible. Despite legal
obligations and the importance of the internet for disabled people, most websites fail to …

Developing accessible services: Understanding current knowledge and areas for future support

M Crabb, M Heron, R Jones, M Armstrong… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
When creating digital artefacts, it is important to ensure that the product being made is
accessible to as much of the population as is possible. Many guidelines and supporting …

[PDF][PDF] Applying accessibility-oriented controlled language (CL) rules to improve appropriateness of text alternatives for images: an exploratory study

S Rodríguez Vázquez, A Bolfing… - Proceedings of LREC …, 2014 - academia.edu
At present, inappropriate text alternatives for images in the Web continue to pose web
accessibility barriers for people with special needs. Although research efforts have been …

“An Adapt-or-Die Type of Situation”: Perception, Adoption, and Use of Text-to-Image-Generation AI by Game Industry Professionals

V Vimpari, A Kultima, P Hämäläinen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Text-to-image generation (TTIG) models, a recent addition to creative AI, can generate
images based on a text description. These models have begun to rival the work of …