Literature Reviews

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

• μCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

  SooYeon Ahn, In-Chang Baek, KyungJoong Kim, Khai N. Truong, Jin-Hyuk Hong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Ahn and colleagues introduce μCap (Music Captions), an automatic captioning system that makes instrumental music accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences by producing time-aligned, non-lexical textual renderings — syllable-like strings …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • DHH
  • captions
  • closed captions
  • music accessibility
  • instrumental music
  • sound visualization
  • retrieval augmented generation
  • RAG
  • large language models
  • generative AI
  • multimodal access
  • onomatopoeia
  • mimetic language
  • media accessibility
  • Korean

• AccessComics2: Understanding the User Experience of an Accessible Comic Book Reader for Blind People with Textual Sound Effects

  Yun Jung Lee, Hwayeon Joh, Suhyeon Yoo, Uran Oh (2023) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This research investigates how to make digital comic books accessible to people with visual impairments through AccessComics, a web-based comic reader that provides scene descriptions, synthesized character voices, and sound effects. The study addres…

  • comics
  • audiobooks
  • eBooks
  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • scene descriptions
  • sound effects
  • onomatopoeia
  • media accessibility