Literature Reviews

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

• Evaluating Alternatives for Better Deaf Accessibility to Selected Web-Based Multimedia

  Brent N. Shiver, Rosalee J. Wolfe (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  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 …

  • deaf accessibility
  • captions
  • automatic speech recognition
  • ASR
  • multimedia accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • online video
  • news accessibility
  • American Sign Language

• AccessibleNews DAISY: Newspapers in DAISY

  Gaurang Kanvinde, Saurabh Gupta (2011) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents AccessibleNews DAISY, software developed by Accessible Systems in Mumbai, India, that automatically converts web-based newspaper and magazine content into DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital talking books. The au…

  • DAISY
  • blind and low vision
  • assistive technology
  • news accessibility
  • digital talking books
  • RSS
  • Global South accessibility
  • content accessibility