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Co-Designing Systems to Support Blind and Low Vision Audio Description Writers

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Audio description (AD), an additional narration track that conveys visual information in media, improves video accessibility for blind or low vision (BLV) viewers. Despite being the primary beneficiaries of AD, BLV audiences are limited in how they can contribute to the AD writing process due to technology inaccessibility and societal biases. In this poster, we (1) prototype and test AccessibleAD, an accessible AD writing system, (2) analyze what context and features are valued by BLV description writers, and (3) explore nonvisual involvement in AD creation. This work expands on existing literature regarding audio description and explores best practices for expanding access to AD writing.

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    ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
    October 2022
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