Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
35 results found tagged education accessibility.
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SlidePacer: A Presentation Delivery Tool for Instructors of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
SlidePacer addresses a fundamental challenge for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students in mainstream classrooms: the cognitive overload caused by splitting attention between multiple visual sources—instructor, slides, and sign language interpreter.…
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Mathematics on the Web: Emerging Opportunities for Visually Impaired People
This paper from the @Science European thematic network surveys the state of the art in making mathematical content on the web accessible to visually impaired people, arguing that MathML adoption is the key to unlocking accessibility. The authors expl…
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Web Educational Services for All: The APEINTA Project
This paper presents APEINTA, a Spanish educational project from Carlos III University of Madrid and the Spanish Centre of Captioning and Audio Description (CESyA), aimed at providing inclusive education through three cloud-based web services. Started…
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Crowdsourcing Correction of Speech Recognition Captioning Errors
This paper describes tools built around Synote, an award-winning web-based application from the University of Southampton, that enable crowdsourced correction of automatic speech recognition (ASR) captioning errors to make video content accessible at…
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Doing Math: Mathematics Accessibility Issues
This student award paper argues that mathematics accessibility for visually impaired students must move beyond rendering (displaying and reading mathematical notation) to support "doing the math" — the active manipulation of algebraic expressions, eq…
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Accessible 3D Signing Avatars: The Tunisian Experience
This paper reports on the WebSign project from the University of Tunis, a system that translates written text into sign language performed by 3D avatars, and addresses the broader challenge of making signing avatars accessible, indexable, and discove…
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Enhancing Learning Accessibility through Fully Automatic Captioning
This paper proposes an architecture for automatically generating synchronized captions for video lectures using off-the-shelf automatic speech recognition (ASR) software, aimed at making educational content accessible to hearing impaired students, dy…
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Widget Design Authoring Toolkit
This paper presents WIDGaT (Widget Design and Authoring Toolkit), an open-source, code-free online tool that enables non-technical teaching and support staff to create personalised widgets for disabled students in higher education. The project, devel…
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Understanding Accessibility as a Process through the Analysis of Feedback from Disabled Students
This paper from The Open University UK analyzes over 6,000 open comment feedback responses from disabled students (out of 93,148 total responses) to argue that accessibility must be understood as an ongoing process rather than a state achieved throug…
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Evaluating the Mobile Web Accessibility of Electronic Text for Print Impaired People in Higher Education
This paper from the University of Southampton presents an Accessibility Evaluation Framework for assessing how well mobile devices support electronic text (eText) reading for people with print impairments in higher education. Print disabilities are b…