[NFBNJ] [MSc] Survey - Web Accessibility

[Inês Matos]

Greetings,

My name is Inês de Matos, I am an IT MSc student in University of Lisbon.
My thesis is about improving web accessibility through semantic analysis
and repair of the web content.

I'm sending to you this email because I would like to invite you to
participate in a survey. This survey is about the quality of the alternate
text for images in web pages and how semantic content analysis could
improve it.

Alternate text is important for people with visual impairments to be able
to comprehend what an image represents. It is made available via an
attribute to the <img> tag in web pages and is used by assistive technology
to describe the image for those that cannot perceive it visually. It is the
most common example in the field of web accessibility. Having an alternate
text attribute does not immediately guarantee the image is accessible. The
content of the alternate text must properly describe the image. With this
survey we wish to characterize how well current alternate text accomplish
this and how semantic analysis can assist in improving the quality of
alternate text.

The survey is anonymous and should take less than 15 minutes to complete.
Use the following link to participate:

https://goo.gl/forms/r9fiWS0JnLscgsaQ2

Thank you for your help!

Kind regards,
Inês de Matos
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