Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
18 results found tagged media accessibility.
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Mapping Movies: A Mind-Map Approach to Aphasia-Friendly Video
Bali, Nevsky, Bircanin, and Neate (King's College London) target an under-served corner of media accessibility: viewers with aphasia and other complex communication needs (CCNs) for whom subtitles, audio description, and existing simplified-media int…
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μCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals
Ahn and colleagues introduce μCap (Music Captions), an automatic captioning system that makes instrumental music accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences by producing time-aligned, non-lexical textual renderings — syllable-like strings …
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Specialized DVD Player to Render Audio Description and Its Usability Performance
This demonstration paper presents the CRIM DVDPlayer, a specialized software DVD player designed to enhance the audio description (AD) experience for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. Developed at the Centre de Recherche Informatique de …
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Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions
This paper introduces Rescribe, a tool that helps authors create and refine audio descriptions for videos. Audio descriptions make video content accessible to blind and visually impaired viewers by narrating important visual information during gaps i…
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AccessComics2: Understanding the User Experience of an Accessible Comic Book Reader for Blind People with Textual Sound Effects
This research investigates how to make digital comic books accessible to people with visual impairments through AccessComics, a web-based comic reader that provides scene descriptions, synthesized character voices, and sound effects. The study addres…
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Sign Language Support System for Viewing Sports Programs
This demonstration paper from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) presents a prototype system that provides Japanese Sign Language (JSL) support for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers watching sports broadcasts. The system was developed in response to…
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"Signifier" Video Sharing Platform and Accessible Media Player for Deaf Users
This paper from the University of Cyprus and Connect Deaf presents the "Signifier" video sharing platform and its integrated Signifier Accessible Media Player (SiAMP), designed specifically to address the lack of accessible video media for Deaf and H…
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Responsive Design for Personalised Subtitles
This paper from BBC R&D and the University of Dundee proposes applying responsive web design principles to subtitle display, moving away from the legacy Teletext format that has constrained subtitling since 1979. Traditional subtitles are pre-blocked…
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HTML5 accessible video player: how and why
This paper from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) describes the development of a free, open source HTML5 video player designed to address the widespread accessibility barriers in online video playback interfaces. The authors identify four k…
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Accessible OzPlayer Video Player
This extended abstract presents OzPlayer, a web video player built by Australian accessibility consultancy AccessibilityOz specifically to address the widespread inaccessibility of popular video players on the web. The authors, who routinely audited …