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YouTube Videos as Data: Seeing Daily Challenges for People with Visual Impairments During COVID-19

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GoodIT '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Pages 218 - 224

https://doi.org/10.1145/3524458.3547224

Published: 07 September 2022 Publication History

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally and affected a large number of people. Previous studies collected online survey and interview data to raise awareness of requirements from people with visual impairments (PVI) under the COVID-19 pandemic, however, little has been observed in PVI’s daily activities due to the suspension of face-to-face fieldwork. In this study, we utilized an innovative data source – YouTube videos to fill the vacancy of observation data in this specific topic. Compared to previous studies, we got more voices involved and gained a richer dataset by considering both videos from the visually impaired community where PVI are primary authors and news media videos where PVI are involved as active participants. Eventually, we collected 24 videos created by the visually impaired community and 27 videos from the news media community, where 57 PVI were depicted. This study uncovered the problems causing pandemic-related challenges and suggested the need for explicit guidelines that can make the prevention protocols accessible and inclusive for PVI, as this study indicates that accessibility can be easily missed under unforeseen situations like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Niu SLiu LBian Y(2024)Please Understand My Disability: An Analysis of YouTubers' Discourse on Disability ChallengesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36869468:CSCW2(1-25)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3686946
Islam MKabir IPearce EReza MBillah S(2024)Identifying Crucial Objects in Blind and Low-Vision Individuals' NavigationProceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3663548.3688538(1-8)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663548.3688538

Index Terms

YouTube Videos as Data: Seeing Daily Challenges for People with Visual Impairments During COVID-19
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Empirical studies in accessibility

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Niu SLiu LBian Y(2024)Please Understand My Disability: An Analysis of YouTubers' Discourse on Disability ChallengesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36869468:CSCW2(1-25)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2024
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Islam MKabir IPearce EReza MBillah S(2024)Identifying Crucial Objects in Blind and Low-Vision Individuals' NavigationProceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3663548.3688538(1-8)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2024
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