We designed and deployed automatic alt-text (AAT), a system that applies computer vision
technology to identify faces, objects, and themes from photos to generate photo alt-text for …

The access of visually impaired users to imagery in social media is constrained by the
availability of suitable alt text. It is unknown how imperfections in emerging tools for …

Social media platforms are integral to public and private discourse, but are becoming less
accessible to people with vision impairments due to an increase in user-posted images …

Scholars have recently drawn attention to a range of controversial issues posed by the use
of computer vision for automatically generating descriptions of people in images. Despite …

Blind and low vision (BLV) creators use images to communicate with sighted audiences.
However, creating or retrieving images is challenging for BLV creators as it is difficult to use …

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 …

Blind users rely on alternative text (alt-text) to understand an image; however, alt-text is often
missing. AI-generated captions are a more scalable alternative, but they often miss crucial …

Like sighted people, visually impaired people want to share photographs on social
networking services, but find it difficult to identify and select photos from their albums. We …

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 …

Blind people often seek answers to their visual questions from remote sources, however, the
commonly adopted single-image, single-response model does not always guarantee …