Characterizing Image Accessibility on Wikipedia across Languages

Elisa Kreiss, Krishna Srinivasan, Tiziano Piccardi, Jesus Adolfo Hermosillo, Cynthia L. Bennett, Michael S. Bernstein, Meredith Ringel Morris, Christopher Potts

Abstract: We make a first attempt to characterize image accessibility on Wikipedia across languages, present new experimental results that can inform efforts to assess description quality, and offer some strategies to improve Wikipedia's image accessibility.