Alt4Blind: A User Interface to Simplify Charts Alt-Text Creation
| Autor: | Moured, Omar, Farooqui, Shahid Ali, Muller, Karin, Fadaeijouybari, Sharifeh, Schwarz, Thorsten, Javed, Mohammed, Stiefelhagen, Rainer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Alternative Texts (Alt-Text) for chart images are essential for making graphics accessible to people with blindness and visual impairments. Traditionally, Alt-Text is manually written by authors but often encounters issues such as oversimplification or complication. Recent trends have seen the use of AI for Alt-Text generation. However, existing models are susceptible to producing inaccurate or misleading information. We address this challenge by retrieving high-quality alt-texts from similar chart images, serving as a reference for the user when creating alt-texts. Our three contributions are as follows: (1) we introduce a new benchmark comprising 5,000 real images with semantically labeled high-quality Alt-Texts, collected from Human Computer Interaction venues. (2) We developed a deep learning-based model to rank and retrieve similar chart images that share the same visual and textual semantics. (3) We designed a user interface (UI) to facilitate the alt-text creation process. Our preliminary interviews and investigations highlight the usability of our UI. For the dataset and further details, please refer to our project page: https://moured.github.io/alt4blind/. Comment: Accepted at ICCHP 2024. Codes will be available at https://moured.github.io/alt4blind/ |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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