Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
116 results found tagged crowdsourcing.
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From Automation to User Empowerment: Investigating the Role of a Semi-automatic Tool in Social Media Accessibility
This paper presents SONAAR (Social Networks Accessible Authoring), a semi-automatic tool designed to improve social media accessibility by combining AI-powered image recognition with user-generated descriptions. The research addresses a persistent pr…
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A Collaborative System for Suitable Wheelchair Route Planning
This paper presents a collaborative system for wheelchair route planning that fundamentally reimagines how navigation services work for people with mobility impairments. Unlike standard route planners like Google Maps that provide street-based direct…
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EnTable: Rewriting Web Data Sets as Accessible Tables
This demonstration paper presents EnTable, a crowdsourcing system that transforms visually complex web data presentations into accessible HTML tables. The problem it addresses is fundamental: modern web designers communicate semantic information thro…
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The Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Quality on Human Transcription Latency
This paper investigates a practical question for accessibility: when does providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) output help human captionists work faster, and when does it slow them down? Converting speech to text is fundamental for making aud…
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Zebra Crossing Spotter: Automatic Population of Spatial Databases for Increased Safety of Blind Travelers
This paper presents a computer vision system that automatically detects zebra crosswalks by mining satellite imagery and Google Street View, with the goal of augmenting geographic information systems (GIS) to help blind travelers plan safer routes. K…
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Introducing People with ASD to Crowd Work
This paper explores whether crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) can provide viable employment opportunities for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). With an estimated 50-75% unemployment rate among adults with ASD in the …
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In-context Q&A to Support Blind People Using Smartphones
This paper addresses a pervasive but understudied problem: the daily challenges blind people face when using smartphone applications go far beyond the touchscreen gesture difficulties that most accessibility research focuses on. The researchers condu…
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Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Navigation Infrastructure
This student research competition paper presents LuzDeploy, a system designed to solve a major barrier to the adoption of indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments: the high cost and expertise required to install and maintain the n…
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A Pilot Deployment of an Online Tool for Large-Scale Virtual Auditing of Urban Accessibility
This demonstration paper introduces Project Sidewalk, a web-based tool that enables anyone with an internet connection to remotely audit urban sidewalk accessibility by virtually walking through city streets using Google Street View. The tool address…
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Towards More Robust Speech Interactions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
This University of Michigan study addresses a largely overlooked accessibility gap: while much research has focused on providing deaf users access to spoken output (via captioning or sign language), almost no work has addressed improving deaf users' …