Caption Crawler Enables Reusable Alternative Text Descriptions using Reverse Image Search

February 22, 2020
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft; Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft

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- Ed Cutrell
  
  Sr. Principal Research Manager
- Meredith Ringel Morris
  
  Sr. Principal Researcher & Research Area Manager
Research Area
- Human-computer interaction
Research Lab
- Microsoft Research Lab - Redmond
Group
Project
- Image Accessibility
- Caption Crawler
Publication
- Caption Crawler: Enabling Reusable Alternative Text Descriptions using Reverse Image Search
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- HEARING IS BELIEVING – Researchers’ innovation provides a richer web-browsing experience for people who are blind

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