Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
12 results found tagged visual question answering.
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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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Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how blind users can exert control over responses generated by conversational visual question answering (VQA) systems built on vision-language models. While prompting and steering techniques are well established in gen…
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How Multimodal Large Language Models Support Access to Visual Information: A Diary Study With Blind and Low Vision People
This CHI 2026 paper reports a two-week diary study with 20 Blind and Low Vision (BLV) participants (ages 19–75, 11 female/9 male, 13 blind/7 low vision) investigating how multimodal large language models (MLLMs) support real-world access to visual in…
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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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Analyzing Visual Questions from Visually Impaired Users
This doctoral consortium paper presents an analysis of the types of visual questions that visually impaired users ask through VizWiz, a mobile phone application that provides near-realtime answers to visual questions. VizWiz allows users to take a ph…
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Using Real-time Feedback to Improve Visual Question Answering
This work-in-progress paper introduces Legion:View, a system that extends the VizWiz model of crowd-powered visual question answering by adding a real-time feedback loop between blind users and crowd workers. The original VizWiz allowed blind users t…
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Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People
This paper presents the findings of a year-long large-scale study of VizWiz Social, an iPhone application that allows blind users to take a photograph, record a spoken question about it, and receive answers from crowd workers or social contacts withi…
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Investigating the Appropriateness of Social Network Question Asking as a Resource for Blind Users
This paper explores whether social networking sites (SNSs) are a viable alternative to paid crowdsourcing for answering blind users' visual questions. The research combines three methods: a survey of 191 blind adults about their social networking hab…
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What the Disability Community Can Teach Us About Interactive Crowdsourcing
This short forum article argues that the disability community has been practicing interactive crowdsourcing long before the term became mainstream in computing, and that mainstream crowdsourcing systems have much to learn from these experiences. The …
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VizWiz: Nearly Real-Time Answers to Visual Questions
This paper introduces VizWiz, a pioneering mobile application that enables blind and low-vision people to get nearly real-time answers to visual questions by connecting their smartphone cameras to remote paid workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Users …