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Non-Visual Reference Database

Also known as: Non-Visual Cooking Database

A proposed structured collection that maps common visual descriptions used in cooking and other domains to their non-visual equivalents using texture, sound, smell, time, and temperature descriptors. For example, mapping the visual instruction "cook until golden brown" to non-visual alternatives such as "cook for 5-7 minutes until the surface feels crispy and you can hear active sizzling." Such a database could enable automatic transformation of visually-oriented instructions into accessible formats for blind users, and could be populated through expert knowledge from chefs, blind cooking instructors, and food safety professionals.

Category: assistive technology · vision impairment · content accessibility

Related: Visual Descriptor · Non-Visual Cooking · Alternative Text

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