How blind people interact with visual content on social networking services

V Voykinska, S Azenkot, S Wu, G Leshed - Proceedings of the 19th acm …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we explore blind people's motivations, challenges, interactions, and
experiences with visual content on Social Networking Services (SNSs). We present findings …

Rich representations of visual content for screen reader users

MR Morris, J Johnson, CL Bennett… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Alt text (short for" alternative text") is descriptive text associated with an image in HTML and
other document formats. Screen reader technologies speak the alt text aloud to people who …

Privacy concerns and behaviors of people with visual impairments

T Ahmed, R Hoyle, K Connelly, D Crandall… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
Various technologies have been developed to help make the world more accessible to
visually impaired people, and recent advances in low-cost wearable and mobile computing …

Designing Accessible Obfuscation Support for Blind Individuals' Visual Privacy Management

L Zhang, A Stangl, T Sharma, YY Tseng, I Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Blind individuals commonly share photos in everyday life. Despite substantial interest from
the blind community in being able to independently obfuscate private information in photos …

Understanding digital content creation needs of blind and low vision people

L Zhang, S Sun, L Findlater - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Creative activities play an essential role in everyday life. Recently, there has been
increasing interest in the accessibility community to support blind and low vision (BLV) …

FingerReader: a wearable device to explore printed text on the go

R Shilkrot, J Huber, W Meng Ee, P Maes… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015‏ - dl.acm.org
Accessing printed text in a mobile context is a major challenge for the blind. A preliminary
study with blind people reveals numerous difficulties with existing state-of-the-art …

The interaction experiences of visually impaired people with assistive technology: A case study of smartphones

HK Kim, SH Han, J Park, J Park - International Journal of Industrial …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Globally, the number of visually impaired people is large and increasing. Many assistive
technologies are being developed to help visually impaired people, because they still have …

Hands holding clues for object recognition in teachable machines

K Lee, H Kacorri - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on human …, 2019‏ - dl.acm.org
Camera manipulation confounds the use of object recognition applications by blind people.
This is exacerbated when photos from this population are also used to train models, as with …

The effect of computer-generated descriptions on photo-sharing experiences of people with visual impairments

Y Zhao, S Wu, L Reynolds, S Azenkot - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
Like sighted people, visually impaired people want to share photographs on social
networking services, but find it difficult to identify and select photos from their albums. We …

Disability-first dataset creation: Lessons from constructing a dataset for teachable object recognition with blind and low vision data collectors

L Theodorou, D Massiceti, L Zintgraf, S Stumpf… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for accessibility is a rapidly growing area, requiring datasets that
are inclusive of the disabled users that assistive technology aims to serve. We offer insights …