"I Wish You Could Make the Camera Stand Still": Envisioning Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia

TY - CHAP

T1 - "I Wish You Could Make the Camera Stand Still": Envisioning Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia

AU - Nevsky, Alexandre

AU - Bircanin, Filip

AU - Cruice, Madeline

AU - Wilson, Stephanie

AU - Simperl, Elena

AU - Neate, Timothy

PY - 2024/10/27

Y1 - 2024/10/27

N2 - Audiovisual media is integral to modern living, yet is not always accessible to all. Modern accessibility interventions, such as subtitles, support many, however, communities with complex communication needs are largely unconsidered. In this work, we envision future accessibility interventions from the ground up with one such community – people with aphasia. Over two workshops and a probe activity, we problematise the space of audiovisual consumption by people with aphasia, and co-envision directions for development in accessible audiovisual media. From low-fi diegetic prototypes to mid-fidelity solutions, we explore new visions of accessibility inter ventions for complex communication needs – notably enabling high levels of content manipulation and personalisation. Our findings raise open questions and set directions for the research community in developing accessibility interventions for audiovisual media to support users with diverse needs in accessing audiovisual content.

AB - Audiovisual media is integral to modern living, yet is not always accessible to all. Modern accessibility interventions, such as subtitles, support many, however, communities with complex communication needs are largely unconsidered. In this work, we envision future accessibility interventions from the ground up with one such community – people with aphasia. Over two workshops and a probe activity, we problematise the space of audiovisual consumption by people with aphasia, and co-envision directions for development in accessible audiovisual media. From low-fi diegetic prototypes to mid-fidelity solutions, we explore new visions of accessibility inter ventions for complex communication needs – notably enabling high levels of content manipulation and personalisation. Our findings raise open questions and set directions for the research community in developing accessibility interventions for audiovisual media to support users with diverse needs in accessing audiovisual content.

KW - accessibility

KW - audiovisual

KW - media

KW - aphasia

KW - complex communication needs

KW - envisioning

KW - probes

KW - prototype

U2 - 10.1145/3663548.3675598

DO - 10.1145/3663548.3675598

M3 - Conference paper

BT - Conference on Computers and Accessibility

ER -