Literature Reviews

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

• Towards collaborative annotation for video accessibility

  Pierre-Antoine Champin, Benoît Encelle, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Magali O.-Beldame, Yannick Prié, Raphaël Troncy (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project, a French research initiative involving Dailymotion, the University of Lyon (LIRIS), and EURECOM, aimed at making web video accessible to blind and deaf users thr…

  • video accessibility
  • audio description
  • captioning
  • crowdsourcing
  • speech recognition
  • Braille
  • multimodal interaction
  • semantic web
  • collaborative annotation

• Overcoming the New Accessibility Challenges Using the Sweet Framework

  Gollapudi VRJ Sai Prasad, T. B. Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper argues for a broader definition of web accessibility that extends beyond disability to encompass linguistic, socio-cultural, and cognitive barriers faced by all users, a concept the authors call "New Accessibility." The research proposes a…

  • web inclusion
  • crowdsourcing
  • renarration
  • linguistic accessibility
  • cultural accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility
  • metadata
  • collaborative annotation
  • semantic web