Accessible Comics for Visually Impaired People: Challenges and Opportunities

Over the recent years, techniques from Document Images Analysis have brought new insights into the understanding of comics. This paper outlines the challenges and opportunities of conceiving accessible comics for visually impaired people. After an overview of the existing initiatives, we briefly highlight in what extent the Document community could help to achieve such a goal in a multidisciplinary way, by collaborating with fields such as Human-Computer Interactions, Cognitive Science and even Education Research.