Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of STEM Images Captioning

  Maurizio Leotta, Marina Ribaudo (2024) — Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A '24)

  This paper from the University of Genoa reports on an experiment comparing human-written and AI-generated alternative text descriptions for complex STEM images — graphs, diagrams, scientific illustrations, and mathematical figures. The researchers re…

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  • image accessibility
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  • AI captioning
  • computer science education
  • visual language models