Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices

Anderson You; Michael Crabb

doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.21201

Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices

Anderson You
, Michael Crabb (Supervisor)

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Abstract

The consumption of subtitles via TVs, laptops and smartphones has the potential to marginalize people based on their complex accessibility needs. The current one-size-fits-all approach to this accessibility aid is no longer fit for purpose and work is required to look at how it can be adapted to be personalised for individual users based on individual context, content, and consumption habits. People with Aphasia, for example, encounter significant challenges in understanding subtitle texts.

We see our work as a call to action for more inclusive practices, focusing on how the thoughts and opinions of people with aphasia can be included in media research. Our work investigates how to develop future media solutions for people with aphasia to create a more inclusive media viewing environment. We believe the key to this is appropriate prototyping tools and methods to allow equitable inclusion in the system design process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Access InContext Workshop at CHI 2025 on 26th of April
Publisher	arXiv
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.21201
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2025
Event	CHI 2025 - PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Apr 2025 → 1 May 2025 https://chi2025.acm.org/ (Link to the conference web page) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11280 (Link to the Proceedings of the Access InContext Workshop)

Conference

Conference	CHI 2025
Abbreviated title	CHI'25
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/04/25 → 1/05/25
Other	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Internet address	https://chi2025.acm.org/ (Link to the conference web page) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11280 (Link to the Proceedings of the Access InContext Workshop)

Keywords

Subtitles
Closed Captions
Adaptive Media
Aphasia
Participatory Design
Accessibility Intervention

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