IMAGE: An Open-Source, Extensible Framework for Deploying Accessible Audio and Haptic Renderings of Web Graphics

IF 2.5 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI:10.1145/3665223

J. Regimbal, Jeffrey R. Blum, Cyan Kuo, J. Cooperstock

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Abstract

For accessibility practitioners, creating and deploying novel multimedia interactions for people with disabilities is a nontrivial task. As a result, many projects aiming to support such accessibility needs come and go, or never make it to a public release. To reduce the overhead involved in deploying and maintaining a system that transforms web content into multimodal renderings, we created an open-source, modular microservices architecture as part of the IMAGE project. This project aims to design richer means of interacting with web graphics than is afforded by a screen reader and text descriptions alone. To benefit the community of accessibility software developers, we discuss this architecture and explain how it provides support for several multimodal processing pipelines. Beyond illustrating the initial use case that motivated this effort, we further describe two use cases outside the scope of our project in order to explain how a team could use the architecture to develop and deploy accessible solutions for their own work. We then discuss our team’s experience working with the IMAGE architecture, informed by discussions with six project members, and provide recommendations to other practitioners considering applying the framework to their own accessibility projects.

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IMAGE：用于部署网络图形无障碍音频和触觉渲染的开源、可扩展框架

对于无障碍技术从业人员来说，为残障人士创建和部署新颖的多媒体交互是一项非同小可的任务。因此，许多旨在支持此类无障碍需求的项目来来去去，或从未公开发布。为了减少部署和维护将网络内容转换为多模态渲染的系统所涉及的开销，我们创建了一个开源、模块化的微服务架构，作为 IMAGE 项目的一部分。该项目旨在设计比屏幕阅读器和文字说明更丰富的网络图形交互方式。为了让无障碍软件开发者社区受益，我们将讨论这一架构，并解释它如何为多个多模态处理管道提供支持。除了说明促使我们做出这一努力的最初用例之外，我们还进一步描述了我们项目范围之外的两个用例，以说明团队如何使用该架构为自己的工作开发和部署无障碍解决方案。然后，我们通过与六位项目成员的讨论，讨论了我们团队使用 IMAGE 架构的经验，并为其他考虑将该框架应用于自己的无障碍项目的从业人员提供了建议。

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ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Computer and information technologies have re-designed the way modern society operates. Their widespread use poses both opportunities and challenges for people who experience various disabilities including age-related disabilities. That is, while there are new avenues to assist individuals with disabilities and provide tools and resources to alleviate the traditional barriers encountered by these individuals, in many cases the technology itself presents barriers to use. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that publishes refereed articles addressing issues of computing that seek to address barriers to access, either creating new solutions or providing for the more inclusive design of technology to provide access for individuals with diverse abilities. The journal provides a technical forum for disseminating innovative research that covers either applications of computing and information technologies to provide assistive systems or inclusive technologies for individuals with disabilities. Some examples are web accessibility for those with visual impairments and blindness as well as web search explorations for those with limited cognitive abilities, technologies to address stroke rehabilitation or dementia care, language support systems deaf signers or those with limited language abilities, and input systems for individuals with limited ability to control traditional mouse and keyboard systems. The journal is of particular interest to SIGACCESS members and delegates to its affiliated conference (i.e., ASSETS) as well as other international accessibility conferences. It serves as a forum for discussions and information exchange between researchers, clinicians, and educators; including rehabilitation personnel who administer assistive technologies; and policy makers concerned with equitable access to information technologies.