Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged deaf accessibility.
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A Web-Based Intelligibility Evaluation of Sign Language Video Transmitted at Low Frame Rates and Bitrates
This paper evaluates the perceived lower limits of intelligible sign language video for mobile communication, testing how much video quality can be sacrificed while maintaining comprehensibility for ASL users. The ITU-T recommends sign language video…
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Comparing Native Signers' Perception of American Sign Language Animations and Videos via Eye Tracking
This paper investigates whether eye tracking can serve as an alternative or complementary evaluation method for assessing the quality of synthesized American Sign Language (ASL) animations. Computer-generated ASL animations offer accessibility benefi…
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A Linguistically Motivated Model for Speed and Pausing in Animations of American Sign Language
This paper tackles a critical accessibility challenge: many deaf adults in the United States have English reading levels below average 10-year-old hearing students, creating barriers to accessing written web content. Computer-generated animations of …
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Accurate and Accessible Motion-Capture Glove Calibration for Sign Language Data Collection
This paper addresses a critical bottleneck in sign language technology research: the calibration of motion-capture gloves used to record hand movements for ASL animation and recognition systems. Motion-capture data enables the development of sign lan…
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Data-Driven Synthesis of Spatially Inflected Verbs for American Sign Language Animation
This paper addresses a critical accessibility challenge: most deaf individuals in the US have limited English literacy (the majority of deaf high school graduates read at a fourth-grade level), making written web content inaccessible. While sign lang…
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Effect of Displaying Human Videos During an Evaluation Study of American Sign Language Animation
This paper addresses a critical methodological question in sign language animation research: how does the choice of upper baseline (human video vs. high-quality animation) and the modality of comprehension questions affect evaluation results? The aut…
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SlidePacer: Improving Class Pace for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students
This short paper from Rochester Institute of Technology introduces SlidePacer, a prototype tool designed to synchronize PowerPoint slide transitions with sign language interpretation in university classrooms. The paper addresses a fundamental challen…
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Evaluating Alternatives for Better Deaf Accessibility to Selected Web-Based Multimedia
This research addresses the accessibility gap created by the proliferation of uncaptioned video content online—a particular problem for deaf adults who use American Sign Language as their primary language and view English as a second language. While …
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Online News Videos: The UX of Subtitle Position
This BBC-funded research investigates whether repositioning subtitles from their traditional placement within a video to below the video frame improves user experience for online news content. The study addresses a gap in captioning research: while t…
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Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Perspectives on Imperfect Automatic Speech Recognition for Captioning One-on-One Meetings
This paper investigates whether and how to display word-level confidence information from Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems in real-time captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users during one-on-one meetings with hearing people. ASR en…