Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged multimedia accessibility.
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Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos
This paper introduces "closed interpreting"—a concept analogous to closed captions where an ASL interpreter video can be toggled on and customized alongside online video content. The motivation is straightforward but often overlooked: many deaf and h…
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Automatically producing IMS AccessForAll Metadata
This paper from the University of Bologna presents the ACCMDBuilder, a software component that automatically generates IMS AccessForAll Metadata (ACCMD) descriptions for accessible learning objects (LOs). The IMS AccessForAll specification provides a…
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Making Multimedia Content Accessible for Screen Reader Users
This paper from IBM Research Tokyo describes an accessible multimedia browser designed to address three critical barriers blind users face with web multimedia content. The first problem is audio conflict: when media plays on a page, its sound masks t…
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E-learning 2.0: You Are We-LCoME!
This paper presents We-LCoME (Wiki e-Learning Compound Multimedia Environment), a collaborative platform for creating and enriching accessible multimedia e-learning resources. Built on top of DokuWiki, the system allows a community of "prosumers" — l…
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Captions Versus Transcripts for Online Video Content
This paper investigates a fundamental challenge for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users consuming online video: while hearing viewers can watch and listen simultaneously using separate sensory channels, DHH viewers must process two competing visual …
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An Adaptive Videos Enrichment System Based on Decision Trees for People with Sensory Disabilities
This paper from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project at the University of Lyon proposes an adaptive system that personalises how video accessibility descriptions are presented to users with sensory disabilities. The cor…
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Towards the Usage of Pauses in Audio-Described Videos
This paper explores the use of "artificial pauses" — brief interruptions inserted into video playback — as a technique for delivering audio descriptions that cannot fit within the natural gaps in a video's soundtrack. Classical audio description is c…
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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 …
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Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos
This paper introduces "closed interpreting," a concept analogous to closed captioning but for sign language interpretation of online videos. While many deaf viewers prefer ASL interpreters over captions (as verbatim captioning speed often exceeds rea…
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Slidecho: Flexible Non-Visual Exploration of Presentation Videos
This paper presents Slidecho, a system that makes recorded presentation videos accessible to blind and visually impaired learners by automatically extracting slide content and synchronizing it with the presenter's speech. The core problem is that mos…