Literature Reviews

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

• Improving Accessibility of HTML Documents by Generating Image-Tags in a Proxy

  Daniel Keysers, Marius Renn, Thomas M. Breuel (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  This paper from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Technical University Kaiserslautern presents a system that automatically generates ALT tags for images on web pages by analysing image contents through a web proxy. The…

  • automatic alt text
  • image accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • computer vision
  • image retrieval
  • web proxy
  • content-based image retrieval
  • screen readers
  • machine learning

• Designing Tools for High-Quality Alt Text Authoring

  Kelly Mack, Edward Cutrell, Bongshin Lee, Meredith Ringel Morris (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This paper investigates how to improve the quality of alternative text through better authoring interfaces and feedback mechanisms for automatic alt text, focusing on Microsoft PowerPoint as the application context. The researchers built and tested f…

  • alt text
  • image accessibility
  • screen readers
  • authoring tools
  • automatic alt text
  • computer vision
  • content accessibility
  • user interface design