Automatic chart understanding: a review

AM Farahani, P Adibi, MS Ehsani, HP Hutter… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated chart analysis has vast potential to improve the accessibility of charts for a wider
audience, eg, people with visual impairments or other disabilities, by generating captions for …

Parallel encoder–decoder framework for image captioning

R Saeidimesineh, P Adibi, H Karshenas… - Knowledge-Based …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent progress in deep learning has led to successful utilization of encoder–decoder
frameworks inspired by machine translation in image captioning models. The stacking of …

Improving the accessibility of scientific documents: Current state, user needs, and a system solution to enhance scientific PDF accessibility for blind and low vision …

LL Wang, I Cachola, J Bragg, EYY Cheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for
accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers. We characterize the scope of …

FormulaNet: A benchmark dataset for mathematical formula detection

FM Schmitt-Koopmann, EM Huang, HP Hutter… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One unsolved sub-task of document analysis is mathematical formula detection (MFD).
Research by ourselves and others has shown that existing MFD datasets with inline and …

Mathematical expression recognition using a new deep neural model

A Mirkazemy, P Adibi, SMS Ehsani, A Darvishy… - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural model for Mathematical Expression
Recognition (MER). The proposed model uses encoder–decoder transformer architecture …

Using artificial-intelligence tools to make LaTeX content accessible to blind readers

G Kortemeyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02480, 2023 - arxiv.org
Screen-reader software enables blind users to access large segments of electronic content,
particularly if accessibility standards are followed. Unfortunately, this is not true for much of …

Development and evaluation of a tool for assisting content creators in making pdf files more accessible

D Pradhan, T Rajput, AJ Rajkumar, J Lazar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Most PDF documents are inaccessible for people with disabilities, creating barriers in
education, science, commerce, e-government, and recreation. Documents in PDF format are …

The state of scientific PDF accessibility in repositories: A survey in Switzerland

A Darvishy, R Sethe, I Engler, O Pierrès… - Learned …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This survey analyzes the quality of the portable document format (PDF) documents in online
repositories in Switzerland, examining their accessibility for people with visual impairments …

A Case for Making Web Accessibility Guidelines Accessible: Older Adult Content Creators and Web Accessibility Planning

A Martin-Hammond, U Patil, B Tandukar - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents our experiences supporting web accessibility planning among a group
of older adult online content creators. We highlight challenges we encountered meeting the …

Gauging Awareness of Accessibility in Open Educational Resources

O Pierrès, A Darvishy - … Conference on Computers Helping People with …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Open Educational Resources (OERs) have been widely promoted in the higher
education community in recent years. However, the accessibility of OERs for people with …