Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2017
Abstract
Crowd work is an increasingly prevalent and important kind of work. Because of its flexible nature, crowd work may offer benefits for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, people with disabilities currently lack access to much of this work because the tasks that are posted are often inaccessible. In this paper, we first characterize the accessibility of the tasks posted to a popular crowd marketplace, Amazon Mechanical Turk, by performing manual and automatic checks on 120 tasks from several common types. We then outline research directions that could have positive impact on this problem. Given ongoing and upcoming changes to the world economy and technological progress, we believe it is important to find a way to make sure people with disabilities are able to equally participate in this kind of work.
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
W4A '17 Proceedings of the 14th Web for All Conference on The Future of Accessible Work, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2017, April 02 - 04
ISBN
978-1-4503-4900-0
Identifier
10.1145/3058555.3058569
Publisher
ACM New York
City or Country
Perth, Australia
Citation
SWAMINATHAN, Saiganesh; HARA, Kotaro; and BIGHAM, Jeffrey P..
The crowd work accessibility problem. (2017). W4A '17 Proceedings of the 14th Web for All Conference on The Future of Accessible Work, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2017, April 02 - 04.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4015
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3058555.3058569