“It’s Kind of Context Dependent”: Understanding Blind and Low Vision People’s Video Accessibility...
Lucy Jiang, Crescentia Jung, Mahika Phutane, Abigale Stangl, Shiri Azenkot
CHI 2024: The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: Supporting Accessibility of Text, Image and Video A
While audio description (AD) is the standard approach for making videos accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) people, existing AD guidelines do not consider BLV users’ varied preferences across viewing scenarios. These scenarios range from how-to videos on YouTube, where users seek to learn new skills, to historical dramas on Netflix, where a user’s goal is entertainment. Additionally, the increase in video watching on mobile devices provides an opportunity to integrate nonverbal output modalities (e.g., audio cues, tactile elements, and visual enhancements). Through a formative survey and 15 semi-structured interviews, we identified BLV people’s video accessibility preferences across diverse scenarios. For example, participants valued action and equipment details for how-to videos, tactile graphics for learning scenarios, and 3D models for fantastical content. We define a six-dimensional video accessibility design space to guide future innovation and discuss how to move from “one-size-fits-all” paradigms to scenario-specific approaches.
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