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SciA11y: Improving the Accessibility of Scientific Documents

1 pointsby adrianadunnalmost 4 years ago

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adrianadunnalmost 4 years ago
The majority of scientific papers are distributed in PDF, which pose challenges for accessibility, especially for blind and low vision (BLV) readers.<p>SciA11y incorporates several machine learning models to extract the content of scientific PDFs and render this content as accessible HTML, with added novel navigational features to support screen reader users.<p>Preprint: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2105.00076" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2105.00076</a><p>Blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;ai2-blog&#x2F;scia11y-improving-the-accessibility-of-scientific-documents-1-of-2-48e1a7025a09" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;ai2-blog&#x2F;scia11y-improving-the-accessibil...</a><p>Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scia11y.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scia11y.org&#x2F;</a><p>Disclosure: I work for the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI, the nonprofit research organization working on SciA11y.