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Universal Access in the Information Society ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-03-13 , DOI: 10.1007/s10209-019-00648-z
Gill Whitney , Irena Kolar

People with a visual impairment are more likely to experience social isolation as an effect of their vision loss. Social media can particularly benefit these users, but it is of concern if it cannot be fully and successfully used. This study was instigated at the request of an advisory group of visual impaired users and experts. The aim of the study was to investigate potential accessibility issues visually impaired users could encounter when using social media. A major concern was over missing content embedded in images on social media sites. A subsequent evaluation of Facebook posts carried out by a group of student participants demonstrated that nearly half of images considered contained embedded text, which would be inaccessible to visually impaired users. Despite efforts by social media companies to improve accessibility, any text present in images is not presented in an accessible way to visually impaired users. This research demonstrated the inequality that can arise from partial accessibility and the requirement to consider accessibility at all stages of design and development.

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视力障碍者更容易因视力丧失而遭受社交孤立。社交媒体可以使这些用户特别受益,但是如果不能完全成功地使用社交媒体,则值得关注。这项研究是应视觉障碍用户和专家咨询小组的要求发起的。这项研究的目的是调查使用社交媒体时视障用户可能遇到的潜在可访问性问题。一个主要的问题是缺少社交媒体网站图像中嵌入的内容。一组学生参与者随后对Facebook帖子进行的评估表明,所考虑的图像中有将近一半包含嵌入式文本,而视障用户将无法访问这些文本。尽管社交媒体公司为提高可访问性做出了努力,图像中出现的任何文本都不会以视觉障碍的用户可以访问的方式呈现。这项研究表明,由于部分可访问性以及在设计和开发的所有阶段都要考虑可访问性的要求,可能导致不平等。
更新日期:2019-03-13
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