Literature Reviews

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

• Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions

  Amy Pavel, Gabriel Reyes, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2020) — Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20)

  This paper introduces Rescribe, a tool that helps authors create and refine audio descriptions for videos. Audio descriptions make video content accessible to blind and visually impaired viewers by narrating important visual information during gaps i…

  • audio description
  • video accessibility
  • blind and low vision
  • NLP
  • sentence compression
  • authoring tools
  • media accessibility