Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged video accessibility.
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Enhancing Learning Accessibility through Fully Automatic Captioning
This paper proposes an architecture for automatically generating synchronized captions for video lectures using off-the-shelf automatic speech recognition (ASR) software, aimed at making educational content accessible to hearing impaired students, dy…
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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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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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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 …
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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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Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading
This paper presents an assistive tool that uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enhance video for people who rely on lip-reading. The core problem is that lip-readers generally prefer a frontal view of a speaker's face, but in real-world vi…