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Although a picture is worth a thousand words, how can you communicate its meaning and content in less than 250 words when that is all you have? Images are often used to convey information, supplement textual content, and/or add visual appeal to documents. The Usability Engineering Lab (USERLab) at the University of Saskatchewan developed an approach for generating informative alternative text for all types of images. This paper describes the approach and reports on the results of applying the approach by developers, content providers, usability and accessibility specialists, and the general public users.
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ISO/IEC WD 20071-11 Information technology — User interface component accessibility — Guidance on creating alternative text for images (2010)
Usability Engineering Lab (USERLab). Alternative Text Prototype Tool (2010), http://userlab.usask.ca/AltTextTool
W3C. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (2010), http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/Overview.html
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Tang, L., Carter, J. (2011). Verbalizing Images. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2011 – Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22098-2_79
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