Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged sound design.
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Sonic Stage: Automatically Generating an Interactive Spatial Soundscape to Facilitate Dialogue Video Comprehension for Blind and Low Vision Viewers
Xu and colleagues (HKUST, Columbia, Aalto, Rochester) tackle a well-known but largely unsolved problem in video accessibility: standard audio description (AD) is constrained not to overlap with dialogue, so dialogue-heavy scenes in films and TV - whe…
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Co-Designing Multimodal Systems for Accessible Asynchronous Dance Instruction
This paper investigates how to design multimodal systems that make asynchronous dance instruction accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) learners. While online exercise videos have proliferated, particularly since COVID-19, dance tutorials rely hea…
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Lessons from Developing Audio HTML Interfaces
This paper presents the AHA (Audio HTML Access) framework, a set of principles for choosing sounds to use in audio-based HTML interfaces designed for blind and visually impaired users. The research builds on earlier work at Stanford University explor…
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Enhancing Accessibility in Webtoons: Investigating Audio Effect Placement Strategies for Visually Impaired Users
This extended abstract investigates how the timing of audio effect (AE) placement—before, during (overlapping), or after narration—affects the user experience of audio-described webtoons for visually impaired users. Webtoons are Korean-originated ver…