Literature Reviews

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

• Scopist: Building a Skill Ladder into Crowd Transcription

  Jeffrey P. Bigham, Kristin Williams, Nila Banerjee, John Zimmerman (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper introduces Scopist, a JavaScript application designed to teach crowd workers stenotype — a chording-based text entry method used by professional real-time captioners — while they perform audio transcription microtasks. The research address…

  • crowdsourcing
  • captioning
  • stenography
  • deaf accessibility
  • transcription
  • skill development
  • text entry
  • real-time captioning