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 …

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 …

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 …

FigurA11y: AI Assistance for Writing Scientific Alt Text

N Singh, LL Wang, J Bragg - … of the 29th International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
High-quality alt text is crucial for making scientific figures accessible to blind and low-vision
readers. Crafting complete, accurate alt text is challenging even for domain experts, as …

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 …

An image for all: The rhetoric for writing Alt-Text

S Huntsman - 2022 IEEE International Professional …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alternative text is a necessary part of the document design process that often becomes
relegated to the work of web developers as part of the coding and tagging of digital …

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 …

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 …

Alt4Blind: A User Interface to Simplify Charts Alt-Text Creation

O Moured, SA Farooqui, K Müller… - … on Computers Helping …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Alternative Texts (Alt-Text) for chart images are essential for making graphics
accessible to people with blindness and visual impairments. Traditionally, Alt-Text is …

“Honestly i never really thought about adding a description”: why highly engaged tweets are inaccessible

M Alkhathlan, ML Tlachac, L Harrison… - IFIP Conference on …, 2021 - Springer
Alternative (alt) text is vital for visually impaired users to consume digital images with screen
readers. When these image descriptions are not incorporated, these users encounter …