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  • What's in an ALT Tag? Exploring Caption Content Priorities through Collaborative Captioning

    Annika Muehlbradt, Shaun K. Kane · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper investigates what makes a good image caption through a novel collaborative captioning methodology. Six pairs of blind and sighted partners—including married couples, friends, and roommates—worked together to create and refine captions for 15 social media photographs…

    image descriptions · alt text · collaborative accessibility · cross-ability collaboration · screen readers

  • The Invisible Work of Accessibility: How Blind Employees Manage Accessibility in Mixed-Ability Workplaces

    Stacy M. Branham, Shaun K. Kane · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    This qualitative field study examines how blind employees navigate accessibility in shared office environments where they work alongside sighted colleagues. The researchers conducted a multi-session study with five blind office workers (ages 25-54) across different…

    blindness · workplace accessibility · assistive technology · screen readers · employment

  • Alipi: A Framework for Re-Narrating Web Pages

    T. B. Dinesh, S. Uskudarli, Subramanya Sastry, Deepti Aggarwal, Venkatesh Choppella · 2012 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper introduces Alipi, a distributed and participatory framework for re-narrating web pages to make them more accessible to diverse audiences. The name "alipi" means "print illiterate" in Kannada and other Indian subcontinent languages, reflecting the project's origins in…

    social accessibility · web accessibility · crowdsourcing · localization · multilingual accessibility

  • Alipi: Tools for a Re-Narration Web

    T. B. Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella · 2012 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This companion demo paper to the full Alipi framework paper presents the concrete open-source toolset that implements the re-narration web concept. The authors frame the accessibility challenge around the "next billion" internet users — people who may not be literate in the…

    social accessibility · web accessibility · localization · multilingual accessibility · collaborative accessibility

  • Social accessibility: the challenge of improving web accessibility through collaboration

    Daisuke Sato, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa · 2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper presents Social Accessibility, a collaborative project from IBM Research Tokyo that enlists volunteers to fix web accessibility problems reported by visually impaired users. The system works through a three-step process: blind users encounter and report accessibility…

    crowdsourcing · screen readers · alternative text · visual impairment · social computing

  • Exploratory Analysis of Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement

    Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Shinya Kawanaka, Chieko Asakawa · 2010 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper presents a detailed analysis of the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental crowdsourced service from IBM Research-Tokyo that enables volunteers to fix web accessibility problems without requiring site owners to modify their pages. Launched in July 2008, the…

    crowdsourcing · web accessibility · social computing · metadata · screen readers

  • Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities

    Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, Chieko Asakawa · 2009 · Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

    This paper reports on the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental service developed by IBM Research in Tokyo that uses collaborative metadata authoring to improve web accessibility. The system works through a three-part architecture: end users (primarily screen reader…

    web accessibility · collaborative accessibility · crowdsourcing · metadata · screen readers

  • Towards One World Web with HearSay3

    Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amanda Stent, I. V. Ramakrishnan · 2008 · Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This short paper presents HearSay 3, a self-voicing non-visual web browser developed at Stony Brook University and the University of Washington, designed to address accessibility challenges introduced by Web 2.0. Building on two previous versions — the original HearSay that…

    screen readers · non-visual web browser · blind users · collaborative accessibility · multilingual accessibility

  • Accessmonkey: A Collaborative Scripting Framework for Web Users and Developers

    Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner · 2007 · Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper introduces Accessmonkey, a JavaScript-based scripting framework that enables web users, developers, and researchers to collaboratively improve web accessibility through client-side page modifications. Built as an extension of the Greasemonkey Firefox extension…

    web accessibility · web transcoding · browser extensions · JavaScript · collaborative accessibility

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