Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged video accessibility.
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Automatic Natural Language Generation Applied to Alternative and Augmentative Communication for Online Video Content Services using SimpleNLG for Spanish
This short paper presents the development of a Spanish version of SimpleNLG — a natural language generation (NLG) library — specifically enhanced for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) applications. The work addresses a gap at the inter…
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Evaluating the Benefit of Highlighting Key Words in Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This paper investigates whether visually highlighting important words in video captions benefits Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users, through formative studies and a larger evaluation study. DHH users face a unique visual-attention challenge when wa…
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Deaf and hard-of-hearing users’ prioritization of genres of online video content requiring accurate captions
This paper investigates which genres of online video content Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users consider most important to have accurately captioned. With over 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute and no U.S. legal mandate to caption…
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A Saliency-Driven Video Magnifier for People with Low Vision
This demonstration paper presents SViM (Saliency-driven Video Magnifier), a system that uses deep learning-based visual saliency prediction to automatically guide screen magnification to the most important regions of a video for people with low visio…
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The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions
The vast majority of online video content remains inaccessible to people with visual impairments because it lacks audio descriptions — verbal commentaries that depict visual information in scenes. Professional audio description services cost US$12 to…
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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…
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Effect of Caption Width on the TV User Experience by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers
This study from Rochester Institute of Technology and Gallaudet University investigates how caption line width affects the viewing experience for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers. Captioning technology has not kept pace with the shift from broa…
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Beyond Subtitles: Captioning and Visualizing Non-speech Sounds to Improve Accessibility of User-Generated Videos
This paper investigates a significant gap in video captioning: the representation of non-speech sounds. While automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become widely available for generating captions on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Zoom, these sy…
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Enhancing Non-Speech Information Communicated in Closed Captioning Through Critical Design
This paper investigates the communication of non-speech information (NSI) in closed captioning for d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers through a mixed-methods study combining needfinding interviews, prototype development, surveys, and evaluation…
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The Potential of a Visual Dialogue Agent In a Tandem Automated Audio Description System for Videos
This paper presents and evaluates a tandem AI-based audio description (AD) system for videos that combines two complementary tools: NarrationBot, which delivers automated minimum viable descriptions (MVD) of video content, and InfoBot, a visual dialo…