Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Enhancing Accessibility through Correction of Speech Recognition Errors

  John-Mark Bell (2007) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper investigates methods for automatically correcting errors in speech recognition-generated captions of university lectures, aiming to improve accessibility for hearing-impaired students. The author notes that while ASR-based captioning can m…

  • automatic speech recognition
  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • higher education
  • natural language processing
  • word error rate
  • caption quality metric

• Predicting the Understandability of Imperfect English Captions for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

  Sushant Kafle, Matt Huenerfauth (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper tackles a fundamental measurement problem in ASR-based captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users: the standard Word Error Rate (WER) metric has little correlation with how DHH users actually perceive caption quality. WER treats a…

  • automatic speech recognition
  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • evaluation metrics
  • word error rate
  • caption quality
  • word importance
  • semantic distance
  • NLP

• Artificial Intelligence Fairness in the Context of Accessibility Research on Intelligent Systems for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

  Sushant Kafle, Abraham Glasser, Sedeeq Al-khazraji, Larwan Berke, Matthew Seita, Matt Huenerfauth (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper from RIT's Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research discusses AI fairness issues specifically through the lens of the authors' extensive research on intelligent systems for people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH). The authors i…

  • AI fairness
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • automatic speech recognition
  • captioning
  • evaluation metrics
  • sign language avatars
  • ethical responsibility
  • human-AI interaction
  • behavioral change

• Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023

  Emma J. McDonnell, Leah Findlater (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper synthesises thinking from four fields — disability studies, Deaf studies, disability justice, and communication studies — into a framework of collective communication access, then uses it to analyse a decade of HCI captioning research (201…

  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • collective access
  • disability justice
  • disability studies
  • communication access
  • literature review