Making memes accessible

C Gleason, A Pavel, X Liu, P Carrington… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Images on social media platforms are inaccessible to people with vision impairments due to
a lack of descriptions that can be read by screen readers. Providing accurate alternative text …

What makes videos accessible to blind and visually impaired people?

X Liu, P Carrington, XA Chen, A Pavel - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
User-generated videos are an increasingly important source of information online, yet most
online videos are inaccessible to blind and visually impaired (BVI) people. To find videos …

Twitter A11y: A browser extension to make Twitter images accessible

C Gleason, A Pavel, E McCamey, C Low… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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 …

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 …

Mapping 20 years of accessibility research in HCI: A co-word analysis

Z Sarsenbayeva, N van Berkel, D Hettiachchi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We employ hierarchical clustering, strategic diagrams, and network core–periphery analysis
to assess and visualise the intellectual progress of accessibility research within HCI in the …

Video captioning with object-aware spatio-temporal correlation and aggregation

J Zhang, Y Peng - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Video captioning is a significant challenging task in computer vision and natural language
processing, aiming to automatically describe video content by natural language sentences …

SceneTrilogy: On Human Scene-Sketch and its Complementarity with Photo and Text

PN Chowdhury, AK Bhunia, A Sain… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we extend scene understanding to include that of human sketch. The result is a
complete trilogy of scene representation from three diverse and complementary modalities …

“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 …

Toward scalable social alt text: Conversational crowdsourcing as a tool for refining vision-to-language technology for the blind

E Salisbury, E Kamar, M Morris - … of the AAAI Conference on Human …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
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 …

Diffscriber: Describing Visual Design Changes to Support Mixed-Ability Collaborative Presentation Authoring

YH Peng, J Wu, J Bigham, A Pavel - Proceedings of the 35th Annual …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Visual slide-based presentations are ubiquitous, yet slide authoring tools are largely
inaccessible to people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI). When authoring …