Evaluating the Effectiveness of STEM Images Captioning
Maurizio Leotta, Marina Ribaudo · 2024 · Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A '24)
This paper from the University of Genoa reports on an experiment comparing human-written and AI-generated alternative text descriptions for complex STEM images — graphs, diagrams, scientific illustrations, and mathematical figures. The researchers recruited 52 undergraduate…
alt text · image accessibility · STEM accessibility · AI captioning · computer science education