  Like sighted people, visually impaired people want to share photographs on
social networking services, but find it difficult to identify and select photos
from their albums. We aimed to address this problem by incorporating
state-of-the-art computer-generated descriptions into Facebook's photo-sharing
feature. We interviewed 12 visually impaired participants to understand their
photo-sharing experiences and designed a photo description feature for the
Facebook mobile application. We evaluated this feature with six participants in
a seven-day diary study. We found that participants used the descriptions to
recall and organize their photos, but they hesitated to upload photos without a
sighted person's input. In addition to basic information about photo content,
participants wanted to know more details about salient objects and people, and
whether the photos reflected their personal aesthetics. We discuss these
findings from the lens of self-disclosure and self-presentation theories and
propose new computer vision research directions that will better support visual
content sharing by visually impaired people.
