TY - GEN
T1 - CollabAlly
T2 - 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2021
AU - Lee, Cheuk Yin Phipson
AU - Zhang, Zhuohao
AU - Herskovitz, Jaylin
AU - Seo, Joo Young
AU - Guo, Anhong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Owner/Author.
PY - 2021/10/17
Y1 - 2021/10/17
N2 - Collaborative document editing tools are widely used in both professional and academic workplaces. While these tools provide some accessibility features, it is still challenging for blind users to gain collaboration awareness that sighted people can easily obtain using visual cues (e.g., who edited or commented where and what in the document). To address this gap, we present CollabAlly, a browser extension that makes extractable collaborative and contextual information in document editing accessible for blind users. With CollabAlly, blind users can easily access collaborators' information, track real-time or asynchronous content and comment changes, and navigate through these elements. In order to convey this complex information through audio, CollabAlly uses voice fonts and spatial audio to enhance users' collaboration awareness in shared documents. Through a series of pilot studies with a coauthor who is blind, CollabAlly's design was refined to include more information and to be more compatible with existing screen readers.
AB - Collaborative document editing tools are widely used in both professional and academic workplaces. While these tools provide some accessibility features, it is still challenging for blind users to gain collaboration awareness that sighted people can easily obtain using visual cues (e.g., who edited or commented where and what in the document). To address this gap, we present CollabAlly, a browser extension that makes extractable collaborative and contextual information in document editing accessible for blind users. With CollabAlly, blind users can easily access collaborators' information, track real-time or asynchronous content and comment changes, and navigate through these elements. In order to convey this complex information through audio, CollabAlly uses voice fonts and spatial audio to enhance users' collaboration awareness in shared documents. Through a series of pilot studies with a coauthor who is blind, CollabAlly's design was refined to include more information and to be more compatible with existing screen readers.
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U2 - 10.1145/3441852.3476562
DO - 10.1145/3441852.3476562
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119280812
T3 - ASSETS 2021 - 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
BT - ASSETS 2021 - 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 18 October 2021 through 22 October 2021
ER -