Christine Samson
Casey Fiesler
Shaun K. Kane
ABSTRACT
Comic books are among the most popular forms of popular media, but most comics are not provided in an accessible format. Creating an accessible transcript of a comic book may be more challenging than simply describing the images, as comics involve complex interplay between words and images, and often feature long-running and complex storylines. In this poster we describe a pilot study exploring the feasibility of crowdsourcing transcriptions of comic book pages. We recruited 60 crowd workers and asked them to transcribe a page of a comic book; half were told that the description was for a blind person, and half were not. We found that people who knew that they were transcribing for a blind person produced longer, more detailed descriptions. Our results also suggest that comic book knowledge may have at least some small impact on description detail.
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Index Terms
- "Holy Starches Batman!! We are Getting Walloped!": Crowdsourcing Comic Book Transcriptions
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