Literature Reviews

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

• South African Sign Language Machine Translation Project

  Lynette van Zijl (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper describes the South African Sign Language Machine Translation (SASL-MT) project at Stellenbosch University, aimed at increasing the South African Deaf community's access to information by automatically translating English text into South A…

  • sign language
  • machine translation
  • deaf
  • South Africa
  • natural language processing
  • signing avatar
  • accessibility
  • linguistic resources

• Accessibility Perspectives on Enabling South African Sign Language in the South African National Accessibility Portal

  Louis Coetzee, Guillaume Olivrin, Ilse Viviers (2009) — Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of embedding animated South African Sign Language (SASL) content into the South African National Accessibility Portal (NAP), a government-backed information sharing platform for the disability…

  • sign language
  • deaf accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • localization
  • South Africa
  • digital divide
  • animated sign language
  • developing countries