Title
How Teens with Visual Impairments Take, Edit, and Share Photos on Social Media
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe contribute a qualitative investigation of how teens with visual impairments (VIP) access smartphone photography, from the time they take photos through editing and sharing them on social media. We observed that they largely want to engage with photos visually, similarly to their sighted peers, and have developed strategies around photo capture, editing, sharing, and consumption that attempt to mitigate usability limitations of current photography and social media apps. We demonstrate the need for more work examining how young people with low vision engage with smartphone photography and social media, as they are heavy users of such technologies and have challenges distinct from their totally blind counterparts. We conclude with design considerations to alleviate the usability barriers we uncovered and for making smartphone photography and social media more accessible and relevant for VIPs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173574.3173650
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Photography, social media, blindness, visual impairment accessibility, Instagram, Snapchat
Visual impairment,Social media,Computer science,Usability,Photography,Low vision,Multimedia,Blindness
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cynthia L. Bennett123424.83
L. E. Jane2786.40
Martez Mott3444.98
Ed Cutrell42731205.59
Meredith Ringel Morris55465362.85