Remote sighted assistance (RSA) has emerged as a conversational technology aiding
people with visual impairments (VI) through real-time video chat communication with sighted …

Automated live visual descriptions can aid blind people in understanding their surroundings
with autonomy and independence. However, providing descriptions that are rich, contextual …

People with visual impairments perceive their environment non-visually and often use AI-
powered assistive tools to obtain textual descriptions of visual information. Recent large …

The opportunity for artificial intelligence, or AI, to enable accessibility is rapidly growing, but
widely impactful applications can be challenging to build given the diversity of user need …

To ensure that AI-infused systems work for disabled people, we need to bring accessibility
datasets sourced from this community in the development lifecycle. However, there are …

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 …

The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools has brought a critical shift
in how people approach information retrieval and content creation in diverse contexts. Yet …

Blind people use artificial intelligence-enabled visual assistance technologies (AI VAT) to
gain visual access in their everyday lives, but these technologies are embedded with errors …

Object recognition technologies hold the potential to support blind and low-vision people in
navigating the world around them. However, the gap between benchmark performances and …

Blind people are often called to contribute image data to datasets for AI innovation with the
hope for future accessibility and inclusion. Yet, the visual inspection of the contributed …