Research Symposium

BIO

I am a first-year computer science major at Florida State University from Broward County Florida hoping to double minor in information technology and innovation. I'm currently working to find a career within user interface development and I enjoy the creative opportunities that coding brings. I'm interested in future research opportunities that involve learning new and versatile coding languages to increase my technological skillset for my career path.

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 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 a work 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: Comic/Narrative/Graphic/Accessibility