Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
116 results found tagged crowdsourcing.
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Leveraging Complementary Contributions of Different Workers for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Video Captions
This paper presents BandCaption, a crowdsourcing system that combines automatic speech recognition (ASR) with input from diverse crowd workers to efficiently correct video captions. The key insight is that different groups of people — hearing-impaire…
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StateLens: A Reverse Engineering Solution for Making Existing Dynamic Touchscreens Accessible
This paper presents StateLens, a three-part system that makes existing dynamic touchscreen interfaces accessible to blind users without requiring any modification to the touchscreen hardware or software. Blind people routinely encounter inaccessible …
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From Screen Reading to Aural Glancing: Towards Instant Access to Key Page Sections
This paper addresses a fundamental problem in screen reader navigation: while sighted users can glance at a web page to instantly understand its structure and locate relevant sections, screen reader users are forced to listen to content serially, mak…
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Where's My Bus Stop? Supporting Independence of Blind Transit Riders with StopInfo
This paper presents StopInfo, a system integrated into the OneBusAway transit app that provides detailed information about bus stops to help blind and low vision riders locate and verify stops, particularly in unfamiliar areas. Locating a bus stop is…
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Web Accessibility Evaluation with the Crowd: Using Glance to Rapidly Code User Testing Video
This paper proposes using Glance, a crowd-powered video coding tool, to accelerate the analysis of user accessibility testing videos. User testing with people with disabilities is a recommended component of web accessibility evaluation (as outlined i…
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Evaluating the Accessibility of Crowdsourcing Tasks on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
This paper presents a heuristic accessibility evaluation of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform where workers complete short tasks (Human Intelligence Tasks, or HITs) for small payments. The authors argue that crowd work platform…
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Exploratory Analysis of Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement
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. L…
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Accessibility Evaluation of Classroom Captions
This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of real-time captioning approaches for classroom lectures, comparing Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and a novel collaborative captioning system call…
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Guiding Novice Web Workers in Making Image Descriptions Using Templates
This study compares two approaches for using non-expert crowdworkers to create accessible descriptions of STEM images (charts, graphs, diagrams) for people who are blind or have print-reading disabilities. The researchers tested Free-Response Image D…
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"Every Website Is a Puzzle!": Facilitating Access to Common Website Features for People with Visual Impairments
This paper addresses a fundamental challenge for screen reader users: while sighted users can rely on visual conventions to find common website features (log in at top right, contact at bottom), these shortcuts are inaccessible to users with visual i…