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Characterizing Image Accessibility on Wikipedia across Languages

Human-Computer Interaction 2023-05-17 v1
Authors: Elisa Kreiss , Krishna Srinivasan , Tiziano Piccardi , Jesus Adolfo Hermosillo , Cynthia Bennett , Michael S. Bernstein , Meredith Ringel Morris , Christopher Potts
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Abstract

We make a first attempt to characterize image accessibility on Wikipedia across languages, present new experimental results that can inform efforts to assess description quality, and offer some strategies to improve Wikipedia's image accessibility.

Keywords

knowledge representation

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.09038,
  title  = {Characterizing Image Accessibility on Wikipedia across Languages},
  author = {Elisa Kreiss and Krishna Srinivasan and Tiziano Piccardi and Jesus Adolfo Hermosillo and Cynthia Bennett and Michael S. Bernstein and Meredith Ringel Morris and Christopher Potts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09038},
  year   = {2023}
}

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