Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
20 results found tagged multimedia accessibility.
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HapticLens: Interactive Vibrotactile Haptic Generation from Spatially Localized Video Motion
HapticLens is an interactive method for generating single-actuator vibrotactile signals from arbitrary video content by letting a designer select a spatial region of interest and converting motion within that region into a vibration waveform in real …
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Accessible Photo Album: Enhancing the Photo Sharing Experience for People with Visual Impairment
This paper investigates how blind and partially sighted people can be supported not only in capturing photographs but in organising, recalling, and sharing them afterwards — a step that the authors argue has been largely neglected in prior blind-phot…
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Variable frame rate for low power mobile sign language communication
This paper from the University of Washington MobileASL team — Neva Cherniavsky, Anna Cavender, Richard Ladner, and Eve Riskin — addresses a then-emerging problem: enabling Deaf people in the United States to hold real-time American Sign Language conv…
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In-Situ Study of Blind Individuals Listening to Audio-Visual Contents
This paper presents an in-situ observational study examining how ten legally blind individuals (WHO levels 3-5) listen to and comprehend audio-visual content such as films, television dramas, and science reports. The research aims to understand the t…
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Annotation-based Video Enrichment for Blind People: A Pilot Study on the Use of Earcons and Speech Synthesis
This paper presents exploratory work from the ACAV (Collaborative Annotation for Video Accessibility) project, investigating how combining earcons (nonverbal audio messages) with speech synthesis can improve video accessibility for blind people. Trad…
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Developing Accessible TV Applications
This paper describes the GUIDE (Gentle User Interfaces for Elderly People) framework for developing accessible TV applications through multimodal interaction, user interface adaptation, and impairment simulation. The research combines a survey of 46 …
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Reading in Multimodal Environments: Assessing Legibility and Accessibility of Typography for Television
This demonstration paper from BBC Research & Development explores the legibility and accessibility of typography on television, an area that had received surprisingly little research attention despite the increasing complexity of text-based content o…
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Specialized DVD Player to Render Audio Description and Its Usability Performance
This demonstration paper presents the CRIM DVDPlayer, a specialized software DVD player designed to enhance the audio description (AD) experience for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. Developed at the Centre de Recherche Informatique de …
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Enhancing Caption Accessibility through Simultaneous Multimodal Information: Visual-Tactile Captions
This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of captions (subtitles) for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers: captions force viewers to split attention between reading text at the bottom of the screen and watching the visual action, inevitably ca…
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Evaluating Alternatives for Better Deaf Accessibility to Selected Web-Based Multimedia
This research addresses the accessibility gap created by the proliferation of uncaptioned video content online—a particular problem for deaf adults who use American Sign Language as their primary language and view English as a second language. While …