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Media accessibility of digital documentscontaining visual representations bypeople with visual impairments

Dragan AhmetovicAssistant [email protected]

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Information access by people with disabilities

Accessing information is a major issue for people with disabilities

� Traditionally, it requires significant additional work

� Special instruments may be needed

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Accessing information is a major issue for people with disabilities

� Traditionally, it requires significant additional work

� Special instruments may be needed

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Accessing information is a major issue for people with disabilities

� Traditionally, it requires significant additional work

� Special instruments may be needed

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Information digitisation is a key enabler for information access

� Unprecedented quantity of information in diverse modalities

� Development of assistive technologies to access information

� Accessibility as a byproduct of media for general population

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Information digitisation is a key enabler for information access

� Unprecedented quantity of information in diverse modalities

� Development of assistive technologies to access information

� Accessibility as a byproduct of media for general population

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Information digitisation is a key enabler for information access

� Unprecedented quantity of information in diverse modalities

� Development of assistive technologies to access information

� Accessibility as a byproduct of media for general population

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Information digitisation is a key enabler for information access

� Unprecedented quantity of information in diverse modalities

� Development of assistive technologies to access information

� Accessibility as a byproduct of media for general population

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Advances in standards pave the way towards accessible media

� Web and hypertext documents - W3C-WAI (WCAG, Aria)

� Video (MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation)

� PDF/UA standard, accessible ePUB, Daisy digital talking books

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Advances in standards pave the way towards accessible media

� Web and hypertext documents - W3C-WAI (WCAG, Aria)

� Video (MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation)

� PDF/UA standard, accessible ePUB, Daisy digital talking books

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Advances in standards pave the way towards accessible media

� Web and hypertext documents - W3C-WAI (WCAG, Aria)

� Video (MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation)

� PDF/UA standard, accessible ePUB, Daisy digital talking books

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Information access by people with disabilities

Advances in standards pave the way towards accessible media

� Web and hypertext documents - W3C-WAI (WCAG, Aria)

� Video (MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation)

� PDF/UA standard, accessible ePUB, Daisy digital talking books

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Accessibility is often unknown or disregarded by authors

� Thus, there are efforts to enforce accessibility by law (SAS airline)

� However the cost may be too much to bear (U-Berkeley)

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Accessibility is often unknown or disregarded by authors

� Thus, there are efforts to enforce accessibility by law (SAS airline)

� However the cost may be too much to bear (U-Berkeley)

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Accessibility is often unknown or disregarded by authors

� Thus, there are efforts to enforce accessibility by law (SAS airline)

� However the cost may be too much to bear (U-Berkeley)

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Alternative content: when it’s done it is done poorly

� Guaranteeing accessibility is not trivial: Validation 6= Accessibility

� Alternative content, when provided, is often insufficient

� For technical content text may not be able to convey everything

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Alternative content: when it’s done it is done poorly

� Guaranteeing accessibility is not trivial: Validation 6= Accessibility

� Alternative content, when provided, is often insufficient

� For technical content text may not be able to convey everything

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Alternative content: when it’s done it is done poorly

� Guaranteeing accessibility is not trivial: Validation 6= Accessibility

� Alternative content, when provided, is often insufficient

� For technical content text may not be able to convey everything

Helen Petrie, Chandra Harrison, and Sundeep Dev. “Describing images on the web: a surveyof current practice and prospects for the future”. In: Proceedings of Human ComputerInteraction International (HCII) 71 (2005)

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Alternative content: when it’s done it is done poorly

� Guaranteeing accessibility is not trivial: Validation 6= Accessibility

� Alternative content, when provided, is often insufficient

� For technical content text may not be able to convey everything

Martyn Cooper, Tim Lowe, and Mary Taylor. “Access to mathematics in web resources forpeople with a visual impairment”. In: International Conference on Computers forHandicapped Persons. Springer. 2008, pp. 926–933

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Crowdsourcing and on-demand alternative content

� But it is highly dependant on crowdworkers

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Crowdsourcing and on-demand alternative content

� But it is highly dependant on crowdworkers

Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M Kitani,and Jeffrey P Bigham. ““It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it”: How User-Provided ImageDescriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible”. In: The World Wide Web Conference.ACM. 2019, pp. 549–559

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Crowdsourcing and on-demand alternative content

� But it is highly dependant on crowdworkers

Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M Kitani,and Jeffrey P Bigham. ““It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it”: How User-Provided ImageDescriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible”. In: The World Wide Web Conference.ACM. 2019, pp. 549–559

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Machine learning automated summarization and captioning

� But in real world scenarios it often fails critically

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Machine learning automated summarization and captioning

� But in real world scenarios it often fails critically

Becky Parton. “Video captions for online courses: do YouTube’s auto-generated captionsmeet deaf students’ needs?” In: Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning 20.1(2016), pp. 8–18

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Problem: lack of accessible content

Possible approaches to overcome the accessibility barrier

� Machine learning automated summarization and captioning

� But in real world scenarios it often fails critically

Becky Parton. “Video captions for online courses: do YouTube’s auto-generated captionsmeet deaf students’ needs?” In: Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning 20.1(2016), pp. 8–18

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Our approach: Zero-effort accessibility

Goal: seamlessly produce accessible content during authoring

� Re-use content already provided during the document creation

� Make the creation of accessible content immediate

� Application domain: accessible tecnical content in digitaldocuments to support STEM education and employment forpeople with visual impairment

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Our approach: Zero-effort accessibility

Goal: seamlessly produce accessible content during authoring

� Re-use content already provided during the document creation

� Make the creation of accessible content immediate

� Application domain: accessible tecnical content in digitaldocuments to support STEM education and employment forpeople with visual impairment

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Our approach: Zero-effort accessibility

Goal: seamlessly produce accessible content during authoring

� Re-use content already provided during the document creation

� Make the creation of accessible content immediate

� Application domain: accessible tecnical content in digitaldocuments to support STEM education and employment forpeople with visual impairment

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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Our approach: Zero-effort accessibility

Goal: seamlessly produce accessible content during authoring

� Re-use content already provided during the document creation

� Make the creation of accessible content immediate

� Application domain: accessible tecnical content in digitaldocuments to support STEM education and employment forpeople with visual impairment

D. Ahmetovic - Media accessibility of digital documents containing visual representations by people with visual impairments

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xessibil ityA : a LATEX Package for MathematicalFormulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

Dragan Ahmetovic, Tiziana Armano, Cristian Bernareggi, Michele Berra, Anna Capietto, SandroCoriasco, Nadir Murru, Alice Ruighi, Eugenia Taranto

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Problem

� Mathematical formulae formatted for visual access

� Manually inserting formulae alternate text is cumbersome

� Resulting alternate text is often incomplete or imprecise

� Many documents are not even partially accessible

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Axessibility automatically generates comments in the PDF (as an/ActualText attribute) in correspondence to each formula.

� The generated comments contain the original LATEX code of theformula, without the need to manually insert them.

� To use Axessibility, the authors simply need to download and addthe package in the preamble of the LATEX project.

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Axessibility automatically generates comments in the PDF (as an/ActualText attribute) in correspondence to each formula.

� The generated comments contain the original LATEX code of theformula, without the need to manually insert them.

� To use Axessibility, the authors simply need to download and addthe package in the preamble of the LATEX project.

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Axessibility automatically generates comments in the PDF (as an/ActualText attribute) in correspondence to each formula.

� The generated comments contain the original LATEX code of theformula, without the need to manually insert them.

� To use Axessibility, the authors simply need to download and addthe package in the preamble of the LATEX project.

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Using screenreader dictionaries it is possible to provide formulaein natural language

� These comments are not visible on the screen but screen readersand braille displays read them when formulae are selected.

� Additional preprocessing scripts enable the use Axessibility onexisting documents

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Using screenreader dictionaries it is possible to provide formulaein natural language

� These comments are not visible on the screen but screen readersand braille displays read them when formulae are selected.

� Additional preprocessing scripts enable the use Axessibility onexisting documents

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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Axessibility

Axessibility : LATEX package for PDF documents with accessible math

� Using screenreader dictionaries it is possible to provide formulaein natural language

� These comments are not visible on the screen but screen readersand braille displays read them when formulae are selected.

� Additional preprocessing scripts enable the use Axessibility onexisting documents

D. Ahmetovic et al. - Axessibility: a Latex Package for Mathematical Formulae Accessibility in PDF Documents

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dioƒunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration ofMathematical Function Graphs

Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, João Guerreiro, Sergio Mascetti, Anna Capietto

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

Problem

� Graphical representations commonly used for STEM education

� Graphs convey accurate, global understanding of functions

� Difficult to translate to a format accessible to blind people

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

Coordinates: -2.29, -0.75Derivative (cos(x)): 0.2

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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AudioFunctions.web

AudioFunctions: web-based audio sensory substitution of graphs

� Allow global overview and precise analytical exploration

� Platform-independent access on mobile and desktop devices

� Exploration with different interfaces based on user needs

� Access directly from digital documents and from web pages

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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Future of the accessible media

Roadmap for the future

� Support semantic representations of content

� Explore different ways to present and personalize the content

� Consider information about context, user abilities, knowledge

� Next goal: zero-effort accessibility of lecture videos

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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Future of the accessible media

Roadmap for the future

� Support semantic representations of content

� Explore different ways to present and personalize the content

� Consider information about context, user abilities, knowledge

� Next goal: zero-effort accessibility of lecture videos

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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Future of the accessible media

Roadmap for the future

� Support semantic representations of content

� Explore different ways to present and personalize the content

� Consider information about context, user abilities, knowledge

� Next goal: zero-effort accessibility of lecture videos

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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Future of the accessible media

Roadmap for the future

� Support semantic representations of content

� Explore different ways to present and personalize the content

� Consider information about context, user abilities, knowledge

� Next goal: zero-effort accessibility of lecture videos

D. Ahmetovic et al. - AudioFunctions.web: Multimodal Exploration of Mathematical Function Graphs

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Future of the accessible media

What can be done in terms of standardization

� Support zero-effort accessibility by providing standards for theentire accessibility authoring process

� More weight to open standards, tools and integration withexisting document authoring best practices

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Future of the accessible media

Accessing visual information embedded indigital documents for people with visualimpairments

Dragan AhmetovicAssistant [email protected]

D. Ahmetovic - Accessing visual information embedded in digital documents for people with visual impairments