Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
43 results found tagged audio description.
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Sonic Stage: Automatically Generating an Interactive Spatial Soundscape to Facilitate Dialogue Video Comprehension for Blind and Low Vision Viewers
Xu and colleagues (HKUST, Columbia, Aalto, Rochester) tackle a well-known but largely unsolved problem in video accessibility: standard audio description (AD) is constrained not to overlap with dialogue, so dialogue-heavy scenes in films and TV - whe…
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ViDscribe: Multimodal AI for Customizing Audio Description and Question Answering in Online Videos
Cheema and colleagues (Arizona State University and Saarland University) present ViDscribe, a web platform that layers AI-generated audio description (AD) and conversational visual question answering (VQA) on top of arbitrary YouTube videos for blind…
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Co-Designing Multimodal Systems for Accessible Asynchronous Dance Instruction
This paper investigates how to design multimodal systems that make asynchronous dance instruction accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) learners. While online exercise videos have proliferated, particularly since COVID-19, dance tutorials rely hea…
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ADCanvas: Accessible and Conversational Audio Description Authoring for Blind and Low Vision Creators
Li and colleagues tackle a rarely examined corner of accessibility: the fact that the tools used to produce Audio Description (AD) are themselves largely inaccessible to the blind and low-vision (BLV) creators who are often its most skilled practitio…
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The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
This short ASSETS '18 poster paper is the formative survey that motivated much of the later Miraikan and CaBot museum-accessibility work from the same research group. The authors conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with 19 people with visu…
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In-Situ Study of Blind Individuals Listening to Audio-Visual Contents
This paper presents an in-situ observational study examining how ten legally blind individuals (WHO levels 3-5) listen to and comprehend audio-visual content such as films, television dramas, and science reports. The research aims to understand the t…
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Are Synthesized Video Descriptions Acceptable?
This paper from IBM Research Tokyo and WGBH National Center for Accessible Media investigates whether text-to-speech (TTS) synthesised narrations are an acceptable alternative to human-narrated audio descriptions for online videos. While accessibilit…
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Annotation-based Video Enrichment for Blind People: A Pilot Study on the Use of Earcons and Speech Synthesis
This paper presents exploratory work from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project, investigating how combining earcons (nonverbal audio messages) with speech synthesis can improve video accessibility for blind people. Trad…
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Specialized DVD Player to Render Audio Description and Its Usability Performance
This demonstration paper presents the CRIM DVDPlayer, a specialized software DVD player designed to enhance the audio description (AD) experience for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. Developed at the Centre de Recherche Informatique de …
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Say It All: Feedback for Improving Non-Visual Presentation Accessibility
This paper addresses the widespread problem of inaccessible slide-based presentations for blind and visually impaired audiences. When presenters fail to verbally describe the visual content on their slides — text, images, diagrams, graphs, and videos…