Research Article
Designing Mobile Tasks to Improve Art Description Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_16, author={Megan Corbett and Jeehan Malik and Vero Rose Smith and Kyle Rector}, title={Designing Mobile Tasks to Improve Art Description Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments}, proceedings={ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation. Creative Heritage. New Perspectives from Media Arts and Artificial Intelligence. 10th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2021, Virtual Event, December 2-3, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={ARTSIT}, year={2022}, month={2}, keywords={Art descriptions Blind Visually impaired Crowdsourcing Docents}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_16} }- Megan Corbett
Jeehan Malik
Vero Rose Smith
Kyle Rector
Year: 2022
Designing Mobile Tasks to Improve Art Description Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
ARTSIT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95531-1_16
Abstract
All people should be able to experience museums, but there are barriers for people with visual impairments (VIs) including few museums that have accessibility accommodations and having to plan their visit. There are museum and technical efforts to supply accessible experiences, but they require curation by experts, making it difficult for these solutions to scale. To address this problem, we used the Art Beyond Sight (ABS) Accessibility Guidelines as a framework to develop mobile tasks to guide laypeople in composing accessible artwork descriptions. We compared the ratings of 31 people with VIs and four docents on curations from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk between two approaches: 1) baseline tasks inspired from prior museum HCI research, and 2) our designed tasks. Both people with VIs and docents rated the second descriptions higher than the first in understandability and adherence to the ABS Accessibility Guidelines. The second descriptions vivid details and orientation information. Our work shows the potential to bring these tasks to a museum space.
