A number of studies have been conducted to improve the accessibility of images using
touchscreen devices for screen reader users. In this study, we conducted a systematic …

Image captioning is a multi-modal task to describe an image into natural language. Many
state-of-the-art methods generally take the encoder–decoder architecture, encode an image …

Social interactions significantly impact the quality of life for people with special needs (eg,
older adults with dementia and children with autism). They may suffer loneliness and social …

A number of researches have been conducted to improve the accessibility of various types
of images on the web (eg, photos and artworks) for people with visual impairments …

Blind or visually impaired (BVI) individuals often rely on alternative text (alt-text) in order to
understand an image; however, alt-text is often missing or incomplete. Automatically …

Many people who are blind take and post photos to share about their lives and connect with
others. Yet, current technology does not provide blind people with accessible ways to …

Most people who are blind interact with social media content with the assistance of a screen
reader, a software that converts text to speech. However, the language used in social media …

Visual assistance technologies provide people who are blind with access to information
about their visual surroundings by digitally connecting them to remote humans or artificial …

Although some technology companies have made significant strides towards the
accessibility of their products, most consumer-facing technology products still pose access …

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 …