Designing tools for high-quality alt text authoring

K Mack, E Cutrell, B Lee, MR Morris - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Alternative (alt) text provides access to descriptions of digital images for people who use
screen readers. While prior work studied screen reader users'(SRUs') preferences about alt …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A dataset of alt texts from HCI publications: Analyses and uses towards producing more descriptive alt texts of data visualizations in scientific papers

SS Chintalapati, J Bragg, LL Wang - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Figures in scientific publications contain important information and results, and alt text is
needed for blind and low vision readers to engage with their content. We conduct a study to …

Increasing web accessibility by automatically judging alternative text quality

JP Bigham - Proceedings of the 12th international conference on …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
The lack of appropriate alternative text for web images remains a problem for blind users
and others accessing the web with non-visual interfaces. The content contained within web …

“It's almost like they're trying to hide it”: How user-provided image descriptions have failed to make Twitter accessible

C Gleason, P Carrington, C Cassidy… - The World Wide Web …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
To make images on Twitter and other social media platforms accessible to screen reader
users, image descriptions (alternative text) need to be added that describe the information …

Value attributed to text-based archives generated by artificial intelligence

K Darda, M Carre, E Cross - Royal Society Open Science, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Openly available natural language generation (NLG) algorithms can generate human-like
texts across domains. Given their potential, ethical challenges arise such as being used as a …

Caption crawler: Enabling reusable alternative text descriptions using reverse image search

D Guinness, E Cutrell, MR Morris - … of the 2018 chi conference on human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Accessing images online is often difficult for users with vision impairments. This population
relies on text descriptions of images that vary based on website authors' accessibility …

An empirical investigation of user term feedback in text-based targeted image search

JY Chai, C Zhang, R Jin - ACM Transactions on Information Systems …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Text queries are natural and intuitive for users to describe their information needs. However,
text-based image retrieval faces many challenges. Traditional text retrieval techniques on …