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  • AIDE: Automatic and Accessible Image Descriptions for Review Imagery in Online Retail

    Rachana Sreedhar, Nicole Tan, Jingyue Zhang, Kim Jin, Spencer Gregson, Eli Moreta-Feliz, Niveditha Samudrala, Shrenik Sadalgi · 2022 · Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper from the Wayfair Next team presents AIDE (Automatic Image Description Engine), a multi-modal system that automatically generates alt-text for user-submitted review photos on e-commerce sites. While product images on retail sites sometimes have alt-text, customer…

    alternative text · image description · online shopping · blindness and low vision · computer vision

  • Beyond Subtitles: Captioning and Visualizing Non-speech Sounds to Improve Accessibility of User-Generated Videos

    Oliver Alonzo, Hijung Valentina Shin, Dingzeyu Li · 2022 · Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

    This paper investigates a significant gap in video captioning: the representation of non-speech sounds. While automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become widely available for generating captions on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Zoom, these systems focus exclusively on…

    deaf and hard of hearing · captioning · non-speech sounds · automatic captions · video accessibility

  • Authoring accessible media content on social networks

    Letícia Seixas Pereira, José Coelho, André Rodrigues, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro, Carlos Duarte · 2022 · Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

    This paper investigates why user-generated visual content on social media remains overwhelmingly inaccessible to blind and visually impaired users, despite platforms offering tools to add alternative descriptions. The researchers conducted a two-phase study: an online…

    social media accessibility · alt text · user-generated content · image descriptions · digital inclusion

  • "It's almost like they're trying to hide it": How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible

    Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M. Kitani, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2019 · The World Wide Web Conference

    This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of how Twitter's opt-in image description feature (launched in 2016) has affected the accessibility of images on the platform. The researchers analyzed 1.09 million tweets with images collected over five days in June…

    alternative text · social media accessibility · image accessibility · blindness · screen readers

  • Empathic communication of accessibility barriers in web 2.0 editing

    Afra Pascual, Mireia Ribera, Toni Granollers · 2015 · Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper presents EmpathicEditor4Accessibility (EE4A), a prototype web editor that helps non-technical content writers understand and fix accessibility errors by communicating barriers through the perspective of disabled personas rather than technical jargon. The authors…

    authoring tools · user-generated content · accessibility education · empathic design · WCAG compliance

  • The Spoken Web Application Framework: User Generated Content and Service Creation through Low-End Mobiles

    Arun Kumar, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Priyanka Manwani · 2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from IBM Research India presents the Spoken Web Application Framework (SWAF), a platform that expands the definition of "Web" itself to include voice-based hyperlinked content accessible through ordinary telephone calls. At the time of publication, only 22% of the…

    digital divide · voice interface · developing regions · digital inclusion · mobile accessibility

  • (Voice) website creation and access using phones

    Arun Kumar, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Priyanka Manwani, Ketki Dhanesha · 2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This challenge paper from IBM Research India presents Spoken Web, a platform that enables people to create and access "voice websites" (VoiceSites) entirely through phone calls using speech and DTMF (touch-tone) input. The system takes a fundamentally different approach to web…

    voice interface · developing countries · digital divide · low literacy · user-generated content

  • Prosumers and accessibility: how to ensure a productive interaction

    Yod Samuel Martín García, Beatriz San Miguel González, Juan Carlos Yelmo García · 2009 · Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A)

    This paper examines how accessibility can be ensured in user-generated content (UGC) created by "prosumers" — ordinary web users who both consume and produce content but lack any training, awareness, or accountability regarding accessibility. The authors conducted a field study…

    user-generated content · social media · ATAG · authoring tools · crowdsourcing

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