Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged video accessibility.
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Sonic Stage: Automatically Generating an Interactive Spatial Soundscape to Facilitate Dialogue Video Comprehension for Blind and Low Vision Viewers
Xu and colleagues (HKUST, Columbia, Aalto, Rochester) tackle a well-known but largely unsolved problem in video accessibility: standard audio description (AD) is constrained not to overlap with dialogue, so dialogue-heavy scenes in films and TV - whe…
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ViDscribe: Multimodal AI for Customizing Audio Description and Question Answering in Online Videos
Cheema and colleagues (Arizona State University and Saarland University) present ViDscribe, a web platform that layers AI-generated audio description (AD) and conversational visual question answering (VQA) on top of arbitrary YouTube videos for blind…
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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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Disclosure Matters: How Self-Disclosure Statements in Song Signing Videos Shape d/Deaf Audiences' Acceptance of Culturally Sensitive Content
This CHI 2026 paper investigates whether self-disclosure statements (SDS) — short first-person texts in which a song signer describes their identity, motivations, training, and relationship to the Deaf community — can improve how d/Deaf audiences rec…
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Creating Disability Story Videos with Generative AI: Motivation, Expression, and Sharing
Niu, Clements, and Kim worked with nine people with disabilities (PwDs) from a Massachusetts disability advocacy group (pseudonymized as 'Campaign') to study how novice users adopt generative AI for creating first-person disability storytelling video…
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Reimagining Sign Language Technologies: Analyzing Translation Work of Chinese Deaf Online Content Creators
Tang and Piper investigate the translation practices of thirteen deaf Chinese online content creators who produce sign language videos for Kuaishou, Bilibili, Douyin, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu, reaching audiences that range from thousands to nearly a q…
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Redesigning Educational Videos for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners
Educational videos have exploded in higher education and online learning, but accessibility guidance for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) learners has barely moved beyond captions and transcripts. Chen and colleagues argue this is a theoretical gap a…
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Like, Comment & Caption: A Decade of Social Media Video Caption Research (2015-2025)
This CHI 2026 paper is a systematic literature review of 36 peer-reviewed studies on Social Media Video Captions (SMVC) published between 2015 and 2025, spanning HCI, accessibility, media studies, education, and language learning. The authors use 'SM…
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Co-Designing Multimodal Systems for Accessible Asynchronous Dance Instruction
This paper investigates how to design multimodal systems that make asynchronous dance instruction accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) learners. While online exercise videos have proliferated, particularly since COVID-19, dance tutorials rely hea…
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I Can't Keep Up: Accessibility Barriers in Video-Based Learning for Individuals with Borderline Intellectual Functioning
This CHI 2026 paper by Chu, Kim, Zhou, Hung, Yang, Ka, and Kim (KAIST and SkillBench) examines accessibility barriers in video-based learning (VBL) for individuals with Borderline Intellectual Functioning (BIF)—people with IQ scores roughly 70–85 who…