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submitted by Narrow-Ad2389
Hi Community!
I am researching the design of User Interfaces for Visually Impaired with 2 other Graduate Students at Clemson University. Our goal is to design an interface for a desktop application which translates memes (pictures with funny caption) for visually impaired. However, we need your help to design the user interface and are recruiting participants for an online interview (15-20min). If you are interested in telling us how you prefer to use interfaces, comment below. We target participants who are not able to see memes. I will reach out to you with more information!
I am researching the design of User Interfaces for Visually Impaired with 2 other Graduate Students at Clemson University. Our goal is to design an interface for a desktop application which translates memes (pictures with funny caption) for visually impaired. However, we need your help to design the user interface and are recruiting participants for an online interview (15-20min). If you are interested in telling us how you prefer to use interfaces, comment below. We target participants who are not able to see memes. I will reach out to you with more information!
Nighthawk321 2 points 1y ago
As other comments have said, there's literally documentation on designing accessible interfaces on most operating systems. Why you would come here to have blind people spoon feed you information is beyond me and is frankly insulting.
Marconius 1 points 1y ago
This does not seem like a productive use of time and effort. Not everyone has the visual memory or context to get what the meme image is trying to convey, and more screen readers are already building in OCR so images of text can be interpreted. If memes circulated with alt text, that could help, but ultimately they just aren't that important to warrant a full on app or experience for them.
Narrow-Ad2389 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Hi, you are making a good point. We are aware of the capability of screen readers reading OCR images and non exisiting visually memory. Our work sets up on this paper "Making memes accessible" $1. It elaborates a technical approach to set up a database with sounds + alt text + text to speech to keep the inherited emotion of a meme (unlike screen readers). However this is only the technical side and lacks an user interface. We are also aware about design principles and have done a lot literature research... However this interface seems to be something new, thus we want to carry out a user study and eventually have the participants evaluate the final product.
Marconius 2 points 1y ago
I still really think it's a waste of time and that you should focus on something more practical and useful. For interfaces, follow Apple and Google's Human Computer Interaction and Inclusive Design documentation, and adhere to the WCAG 2.1 AA best practices and standards if it is to be web-based.
Narrow-Ad2389 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
You mean the entire application to be a waste of time since you think emotions cannot be translated or that the user study and evaluation should be following your provided guidelines?
Marconius 2 points 1y ago
Yes to the former, as we already have emojis with alt text and our screen readers interpret emoticons. Memes are highly subjective and require a lot of visual context to make the connection between the added text and the image. Even with alt text which would and should only describe images objectively, how would I know what meme image goes with the text? Even if I know which image would fit the meme I'm trying to make or convey, what do I get out of it if I can't socially correlate the image or understand why it's a meme image? Memes to us just become text anyways so why not just use that instead and not bother with an image? And as for my latter point, no, I'm not talking about how you hold your interviews, I'm pointing out the guidelines you should already know about and understand and follow for inclusive interface design. Follow the WCAG, follow Apple's documentation on how to create interfaces and apps in MacOS and iOS, Google's documentation on how to create proper interfaces for Talkback and ChromeOS, Microsoft's documentation on Windows app development and how interfaces are meant to work with NVDA and Jaws, and off you go.
MostlyBlindGamer 0 points 1y ago
For visually impaired what?
Also, you can use those 15-20 minutes to find references on interface design. Or somebody here can charge you a covering de to do that for you.
Also, you can use those 15-20 minutes to find references on interface design. Or somebody here can charge you a covering de to do that for you.
bradley22 2 points 1y ago
Why must you pick on someone for there skills with the English language? I know they meant to put peple and I'm sure you did too.
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