BIO

Summer Carrier is currently a freshman at FSU studying anthropology. She's from Jacksonville, FL, where she studied at an arts intensive high school for creative writing. Interested in all things art, design, and history, she someday wishes to work in the field of public education.

Comic and Graphic Narrative Accessibility

Abstract

Multimodal media is largely inaccessible to blind and low vision readers due to ineffective and/or inattentive human and AI interventions. Our project attempts to render accessible one type of multi-modal media: comics and graphic novels. Based on previous research, we have determined a spectrum of issues blind and low-vision readers encounter while reading comics and graphic narratives. This feedback was incorporated into the backend code, based on the comic book markup language (CBML) and user interface (UI) of the multimodal accessibility app Vizling. The app translates works in three different ways to provide options for users, as well as being able to represent the source material in a more holistic way than apps have done in the past.

Keywords: Accessibility comics language code