Authors:
João Marcelo dos Santos Marques
1
;
Luiz Fernando Gopi Valente
1
;
Simone Bacellar Leal Ferreira
1
;
Claudia Cappelli
1
and
Luciana Salgado
2
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
;
2
Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Accessibility, Audio Description, Instagram.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Accessibility and Usability
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract:
The social network Instagram encourages interactions among users around audio-visual content (pictures
and short duration videos). However, this type of content still presents itself as a barrier for the visually
impaired. To mitigate this problem, screen readers can be used, but those only work for images which have
texts in the form of subtitles. Audio description, on the other hand, is a technique that describes visual
images into words, allowing the comprehension of these elements. This technique has been used in many
fields, fostering a scenario of inclusion and opportunities for this public. The objective of this paper is to
evaluate and compare these two forms of describing images published on Instagram: one utilizing the
descriptive text read by the screen reader and another utilizing audio description recorded by the image’s
own author. Through an empirical study, we have identified the form of image description preferred by the
visually impaired participants and if the use
of audio description on Instagram would encourage its use by
this public.
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