Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged video accessibility.
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Watch It, Don't Imagine It: Creating a Better Caption-Occlusion Metric by Collecting More Ecologically Valid Judgments from DHH Viewers
This CHI 2022 paper builds a better automated metric for the severity of caption-occlusion — the problem of closed captions blocking important on-screen visual content during television programming. DHH viewers consistently report that even perfectly…
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In-Situ Study of Blind Individuals Listening to Audio-Visual Contents
This paper presents an in-situ observational study examining how ten legally blind individuals (WHO levels 3-5) listen to and comprehend audio-visual content such as films, television dramas, and science reports. The research aims to understand the t…
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Are Synthesized Video Descriptions Acceptable?
This paper from IBM Research Tokyo and WGBH National Center for Accessible Media investigates whether text-to-speech (TTS) synthesised narrations are an acceptable alternative to human-narrated audio descriptions for online videos. While accessibilit…
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Multiple View Perspectives: Improving Inclusiveness and Video Compression in Mainstream Classroom Recordings
This paper presents Multiple View Perspectives (MVP), a system that captures and presents multiple focused video views of a classroom for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. DHH students in mainstream classrooms face a fundamental visual attenti…
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Annotation-based Video Enrichment for Blind People: A Pilot Study on the Use of Earcons and Speech Synthesis
This paper presents exploratory work from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project, investigating how combining earcons (nonverbal audio messages) with speech synthesis can improve video accessibility for blind people. Trad…
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The Vlogging Phenomena: A Deaf Perspective
This paper examines how Deaf people use video blogging (vlogging) technology to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) on mainstream and specialized platforms. The researchers compared vlogging practices on YouTube, a mainstream video-sharing si…
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Leveraging Complementary Contributions of Different Workers for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Video Captions
This paper presents BandCaption, a crowdsourcing system that combines automatic speech recognition (ASR) with input from diverse crowd workers to efficiently correct video captions. The key insight is that different groups of people — hearing-impaire…
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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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NoTeeline: Supporting Real-Time, Personalized Notetaking with LLM-Enhanced Micronotes
This paper introduces NoTeeline, an interactive notetaking tool that uses LLMs to expand user-written "micronotes" — brief shorthand jottings like "plastic pol. ->" or "RNNs are unrolled l to r or opp" — into full-fledged notes that maintain the user…
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AVD-LV: An Accessible Player for Captioned STEM Videos
This demo paper presents AVD-LV (Accessible View Device interface for Low Vision), a Chrome browser extension that enhances YouTube lecture video accessibility for deaf and low vision (DLV) viewers. The core problem is that captioned videos require D…