Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged online video.

Are Synthesized Video Descriptions Acceptable?

Masatomo Kobayashi, Trisha O'Connell, Bryan Gould, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

This paper from IBM Research Tokyo and WGBH National Center for Accessible Media investigates whether text-to-speech (TTS) synthesised narrations are an acceptable alternative to human-narrated audio descriptions for online videos. While accessibilit…
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 …
Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos

Raja Kushalnagar, Matthew Seita, Abraham Glasser (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper introduces "closed interpreting," a concept analogous to closed captioning but for sign language interpretation of online videos. While many deaf viewers prefer ASL interpreters over captions (as verbatim captioning speed often exceeds rea…