Rescribe: Authoring and automatically editing audio descriptions

A Pavel, G Reyes, JP Bigham - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Audio descriptions make videos accessible to those who cannot see them by describing
visual content in audio. Producing audio descriptions is challenging due to the synchronous …

Audio description customization

R Natalie, RC Chang, S Sheshadri, A Guo… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Blind and low-vision (BLV) people use audio descriptions (ADs) to access videos. However,
current ADs are unalterable by end users, thus are incapable of supporting BLV individuals' …

Beyond audio description: Exploring 360 video accessibility with blind and low vision users through collaborative creation

L Jiang, M Phutane, S Azenkot - Proceedings of the 25th international …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While audio description (AD) is a standard method for making traditional videos more
accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users, we lack an understanding of how to make …

The efficacy of collaborative authoring of video scene descriptions

R Natalie, J Loh, HS Tan, J Tseng, ILYR Chan… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The majority of online video contents remain inaccessible to people with visual impairments
due to the lack of audio descriptions to depict the video scenes. Content creators have …

Co-designing systems to support blind and low vision audio description writers

L Jiang, R Ladner - Proceedings of the 24th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Audio description (AD), an additional narration track that conveys visual information in
media, improves video accessibility for blind or low vision (BLV) viewers. Despite being the …

Towards Accessible Musical Performances in Virtual Reality: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Omnidirectional Audio Descriptions

K Dang, G Burke, H Korreshi, S Lee - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Our research focuses on making musical performance experience in virtual reality (VR)
settings non-visually accessible for Blind and Low Vision (BLV) individuals by designing a …

SPICA: Interactive Video Content Exploration through Augmented Audio Descriptions for Blind or Low-Vision Viewers

Z Ning, BL Wimer, K Jiang, K Chen, J Ban… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Blind or Low-Vision (BLV) users often rely on audio descriptions (AD) to access video
content. However, conventional static ADs can leave out detailed information in videos …

Machine generation of audio description for blind and visually impaired people

VP Campos, LMG Gonçalves, WL Ribeiro… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Automating the generation of audio descriptions (AD) for blind and visually impaired (BVI)
people is a difficult task, since it has several challenges involved, such as: identifying gaps …

“It's Kind of Context Dependent”: Understanding Blind and Low Vision People's Video Accessibility Preferences Across Viewing Scenarios

L Jiang, C Jung, M Phutane, A Stangl… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While audio description (AD) is the standard approach for making videos accessible to blind
and low vision (BLV) people, existing AD guidelines do not consider BLV users' varied …

Making Short-Form Videos Accessible with Hierarchical Video Summaries

T Van Daele, A Iyer, Y Zhang, JC Derry, M Huh… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Short videos on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts (ie short-
form videos) have become a primary source of information and entertainment. Many short …