Literature Reviews

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

• Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Users Evaluating Designs for Highlighting Key Words in Educational Lecture Videos

  Sushant Kafle, Becca Dingman, Matt Huenerfauth (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This empirical study investigates design preferences for keyword highlighting in video captions among Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users. While style guides like the APA Publication Manual and Chicago Manual of Style provide recommendations for hig…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • captions
  • captioning
  • video accessibility
  • text highlighting
  • educational accessibility
  • user study

• Evaluating the Benefit of Highlighting Key Words in Captions for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

  Sushant Kafle, Peter Yeung, Matt Huenerfauth (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper investigates whether visually highlighting important words in video captions benefits Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) users, through formative studies and a larger evaluation study. DHH users face a unique visual-attention challenge when wa…

  • Deaf and hard of hearing
  • captioning
  • text highlighting
  • educational accessibility
  • video accessibility
  • reading comprehension
  • cognitive load
  • user study
  • visual attention
  • natural language processing