Toward Language Justice: Exploring Multilingual Captioning for Accessibility

This research project examined how multilingual and disabled caption users navigate accessibility in different languages and in multilingual contexts. It was motivated by the dearth of research on non-English and multilingual contexts as well as disparities in availability of captioning technologies for different languages. We collected data from 13 multilingual and disabled caption users from North America through semi-structured interviews and diary logs to understand current challenges and opportunities for multilingual captioning.