Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
116 results found tagged crowdsourcing.
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Better Vocabularies for Assistive Communication Aids: Connecting Terms Using Semantic Networks and Untrained Annotators
This paper presents the design and evaluation of ViVA (Visual Vocabulary for Aphasia), an assistive communication tool that uses semantic networks to help people with aphasia find words more easily. The authors address a fundamental problem with exis…
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AudioWiz: Nearly Real-Time Audio Transcriptions
This student research paper presents AudioWiz, a mobile application that provides near-real-time transcriptions of both spoken words and environmental sounds for deaf and hard of hearing users. The author identifies a critical gap in existing automat…
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Analyzing Visual Questions from Visually Impaired Users
This doctoral consortium paper presents an analysis of the types of visual questions that visually impaired users ask through VizWiz, a mobile phone application that provides near-realtime answers to visual questions. VizWiz allows users to take a ph…
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StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing
This doctoral consortium paper presents StopFinder, a mobile system that uses crowdsourcing to collect and provide information about non-visual landmarks around bus stops for blind public transit riders. The research addresses a fundamental challenge…
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Online Quality Control for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
This paper addresses quality control in Legion:Scribe, a system that provides real-time captioning by having multiple non-expert crowd workers simultaneously type what they hear, then automatically merging their partial transcriptions into a single c…
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IncluCity: Using Contextual Cues to Raise Awareness on Environmental Accessibility
This paper investigates whether contextual cues — specifically photographs and precise location information — can make accessibility awareness campaigns more effective at changing public attitudes toward disability and environmental barriers. Traditi…
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Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders by Crowdsourcing Bus Stop Landmark Locations with Google Street View
This paper introduces Bus Stop CSI (Crowdsourcing Streetview Inspections), a scalable method for collecting bus stop location and landmark descriptions by combining online crowdsourcing with Google Street View (GSV). Blind and low-vision bus riders r…
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Crowd Caption Correction (CCC)
This short paper presents Crowd Caption Correction (CCC), a feature that allows meeting participants or authorized third parties to correct errors in real-time captions during telecollaboration sessions. Captions are critical for deaf and hard of hea…
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WebInSight: Making Web Images Accessible
This paper introduces WebInSight, a system that automatically generates and inserts alternative text for web images that lack it. The authors first establish the scale of the problem through a series of web studies examining five groups of important …
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Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Infrastructure for Web Accessibility
This paper introduces Accessibility Commons (AC), a shared metadata infrastructure designed to integrate, store, and share accessibility metadata produced by diverse research projects, assistive technologies, and individual users. The authors identif…