Improving Accessibility via Crowdsourcing - overview
User Experience Accomplishment | 2008
IBM researchers: Hironobu Takagi, Daisuke Sato, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa
Where the work was done: IBM Tokyo Lab
What we accomplished: The researchers are responsible for an epoch-making project that allows an open community to fix accessibility problems on any Web page. The work has had an impact on successive crowdsourcing-based accessibility solutions inside and outside IBM.
Related links: ACM SIGACCESS 2009 Best Paper Award for Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities; YouTube; Project Page
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