2021-12-13: Summary of “What Makes Videos Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?”
Figure 1 : Video (A) contains no information about accessibility. Video accessibility metrics (B), BVI people using it C) to filter or quickly identify accessible videos from search results. (Source: ACM ) Text-based documents, articles, reviews, and reports were the main information sources on the internet. In late 2000, the Internet became mainstream . Among the attractions of this mainstream, Youtube was a popular search platform for watching videos, reaching 81% of internet users . These videos give so much information such as a tutorial, lecture, unboxing video, review, and more that people increasingly use videos instead of text to communicate information. In fact, based on a report provided by YouTube, there are 1 billion hours of videos being played each day on YouTube alone. These videos provide information, both auditory and visually, but the visual content in videos is not accessible to blind and visually impaired (BVI) audience members. Traditionally, to m...