Research Project: Accessible Online Tasks for Visually impaired people
The project uses questionnaires and interviews to understand the work and problems of blind people workers on mainstream Japanese and English crowdsourcing platforms. Then, for problems of the web page tasks and tabular-like tasks, proposed automated solutions. The goal of the project is to make more accessible microtasks to visual-impaired people and let more visually impaired people work as crowd workers. This project shows that consistency in navigation is an important factor and choosing important images to add alt text on the web page is important to understand the online microtasks. We also proposed a principled framework that develops consistent non-visual microtasks and a method of adding the alt text by combining crowdsourcing and AI. This project is the first to look at the work of visually impaired people on crowdsourcing platforms. This project can expand the work of visually impaired people.