Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged video accessibility.
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Beyond Audio Description: Exploring 360° Video Accessibility with Blind and Low Vision Users Through Collaborative Creation
This paper investigates how to make 360-degree videos accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users while preserving their immersive nature — a challenge that goes well beyond simply adding traditional audio description (AD). The researchers conduct…
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Exploring Community-Driven Descriptions for Making Livestreams Accessible
This paper investigates the feasibility of using livestream community members — sighted viewers who are domain experts in the content being streamed — to provide real-time descriptions that make livestreams accessible to viewers with visual impairmen…
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Making Accessible Movies Easily: An Intelligent Tool for Authoring and Integrating Audio Descriptions to Movies
This paper introduces EasyAD, an intelligent tool that automates the process of authoring and integrating audio descriptions (AD) into movies for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users. The traditional AD production workflow is highly labor-intensiv…
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Touchpad Mapper: Exploring Non-Visual Touchpad Interactions for Screen-Reader Users
This technical note introduces Touchpad Mapper, a system that repurposes the laptop touchpad — a widely available but underutilized input device for screen-reader users — as a spatial interface for exploring 2D digital content non-visually. The autho…
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Audio Description Customization
This paper investigates how audio descriptions (AD) for video content can be customized to meet the diverse preferences of blind and low-vision (BLV) users. Traditional ADs are fixed narratives created by sighted describers, offering no ability for u…
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Making Lecture Videos Accessible for Students who are Blind or have Low Vision through AI-Assisted Navigation and Visual Question Answering
This paper presents the design and evaluation of LectureAssistant, an AI-powered prototype that makes lecture videos more accessible for students who are blind or have low vision. The research follows a three-part human-centred design process. First,…
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DescribePro: Collaborative Audio Description with Human-AI Interaction
This paper presents DescribePro, a web-based platform that combines human expertise with AI capabilities to create and refine audio descriptions (AD) for video content. The system addresses the fundamental tension in AD production: human-crafted desc…
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FocusView: Understanding and Customizing Informational Video Watching Experiences for Viewers with ADHD
This paper presents FocusView, an AI-powered video customization interface designed to help viewers with ADHD reduce distractions and maintain focus when watching informational videos. The research addresses the critical gap that while videos have be…
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VeasyGuide: Personalized Visual Guidance for Low-vision Learners on Instructor Actions in Presentation Videos
This paper introduces VeasyGuide, a tool designed to make presentation videos more accessible for low-vision (LV) learners by automatically detecting and highlighting instructor actions such as pointing, marking, and sketching. The authors identify a…
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Design considerations for photosensitivity warnings in visual media
This paper investigates how photosensitivity warnings should be designed for digital visual media to effectively help people with photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) navigate content safely. Photosensitive seizures can be triggered by flashing lights, stro…