Jeffrey P. Bigham
ABSTRACT
The lack of appropriate alternative text for web images remains a problem for blind users and others accessing the web with non-visual interfaces. The content contained within web images is vital for understanding many web sites but the majority are assigned either inaccurate alternative text or none at all. The capability to automatically judge the quality of alternative text has the promise to dramatically improve the accessibility of the web by bringing intelligence to three categories of interfaces: tools that help web authors verify that they have provided adequate alternative text for web images, systems that automatically produce and insert alternative text for web images, and screen reading software. In this paper we describe a classifier capable of measuring the quality of alternative text given only a few labeled training examples by automatically considering the image context.
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