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Faculty
Advisor |
Shiry Ginosar |
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| Visually impaired individuals surf the
Web using screen readers (programs
that read the contents of the screen out loud). Since
today's screen
readers can only read text from Web pages, the Web still
presents a major
accessibility problem because there are millions of
images on the Web,
most of which have no appropriate captions and therefore
are completely
obscured for those who rely on screen readers. One possible
solution to
this problem is the ESP Game. If all images on the Web
are labeled by the
game, screen readers could read the labels out loud.
This, however, can be
improved. The ESP Game produces labels, not explanatory
sentences. While
keyword labels are perfect for certain applications
such as image search,
accessibility would benefit more from explanatory sentences.
The REU will
build a new game whose output is explanatory sentences
of images. Using
the output of the game, we propose to build a prototype
of a system that
can improve the accessibility of the Web for visually
impaired
individuals. |
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