Literature Reviews

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

• SoundModVR: Sound Modifications in Virtual Reality to Support People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  Xinyun Cao, Dhruv Jain (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper challenges the prevailing approach to VR sound accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people, which has focused almost exclusively on substituting audio with visual or haptic alternatives (captions, flashing indicators, vibration…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • virtual reality
  • sound modification
  • audio accessibility
  • partial hearing
  • Unity
  • developer toolkit