4 papers
How Do Novice Describers Edit AI Drafts? The Role of Draft Quality in Audio Description Authoring
Lana Do, Shasta Ihorn, Charity M. Pitcher-Cooper +7
Audio description (AD) narrates visual elements in video for blind and low-vision audiences. Recent work has shown that giving novice describers an AI-generated draft to start from…
ADx3: A Collaborative Workflow for High-Quality Accessible Audio Description
Lana Do, Shasta Ihorn, Charity Pitcher-Cooper +5
Audio description (AD) makes video content accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) audiences, but producing high-quality descriptions is resource-intensive. Automated AD offers sc…
Toward Scalable Audio Description Quality Control: A Workflow for Evaluating Human and VLM Raters
Lana Do, Gio Jung, Juvenal Francisco Barajas +5
Digital video is central to communication, education, and entertainment, but without audio description (AD), blind and low-vision users are excluded. While crowdsourced platforms a…
NarrationBot and InfoBot: A Hybrid System for Automated Video Description
Shasta Ihorn, Yue-Ting Siu, Aditya Bodi +6
Video accessibility is crucial for blind and low vision users for equitable engagements in education, employment, and entertainment. Despite the availability of professional and am…