Evaluating subtitle readability in media immersive environments

Orero, P; Brescia-Zapata, M; Hughes, CJ

Abstract

The advances in VR technology has led to immersive videos rapidly gaining popularity. Accessibility to immersive media should be
offered and subtitles are the most popular accessibility service. Research on subtitle readability has led to guidelines and standards (W3C,
ISO/IEC/ITU 20071-23:2018). More research into subtitle presentation modes in 360º is needed in order to move towards understanding
optimum readability. Evaluating readability for subtitles in immersive media environments requires a flexible and user-friendly framework
for both creating the subtitles and presenting the generated subtitle file in a fully functional immersive video player, in order to understand
the final view in the environment and assess its quality. This article starts by looking at the readability recommendations in W3C and
ISO/IEC/ITU. The second part will describe the new features required in immersive subtitle presentations. The final section will describe
the new web-based framework that allows the generation of immersive subtitles where readability may be tested. The framework has
adopted a contrast and comparison approach towards instant readability evaluation.

Citation

Orero, P., Brescia-Zapata, M., & Hughes, C. Evaluating subtitle readability in media immersive environments. Presented at DSAI 2020, the 9th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion., Online

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: DSAI 2020, the 9th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion.
• Conference Location: Online
• End Date: Dec 4, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Oct 30, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 2, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 14, 2021
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Book Title: DSAI 2020 : 9th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion
• ISBN: 9781450389372
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3439231.3440602
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3439231.3440602
• Related Public URLs: http://dsai.ws/2020/accepted-papers/; https://doi.org/10.1145/3439231
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference