Literature Reviews

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

• Data-Driven Synthesis of Spatially Inflected Verbs for American Sign Language Animation

  Pengfei Lu, Matt Huenerfauth (2011) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  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…

  • sign language
  • ASL
  • animation
  • deaf accessibility
  • natural language processing
  • avatar technology

• Accessible 3D Signing Avatars: The Tunisian Experience

  Kabil Jaballah (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper reports on the WebSign project from the University of Tunis, a system that translates written text into sign language performed by 3D avatars, and addresses the broader challenge of making signing avatars accessible, indexable, and discove…

  • sign language
  • deaf accessibility
  • avatar technology
  • virtual signing
  • education accessibility
  • Global South accessibility
  • information retrieval

• Web-Content's Syndication in Sign Language

  Oussama El Ghoul, Nour Ben Yahia, Mohamed Jemni (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper addresses the inaccessibility of web content syndication (RSS feeds) for deaf users, particularly those in developing countries where over 80% of deaf people are illiterate. While RSS and Atom feeds are efficient mechanisms for pushing upd…

  • sign language
  • deaf accessibility
  • avatar technology
  • RSS
  • content syndication
  • web accessibility
  • virtual signing