Literature Reviews

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

• Mixed Local and Remote Participation in Teleconferences from a Deaf and Hard of Hearing Perspective

  Christian Vogler, Paula Tucker, Norman Williams (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This experience report describes the accessibility challenges faced by deaf and hard of hearing members of the FCC's Emergency Access Advisory Committee (EAAC) during 2.5 years of collaboration with 25-30 hearing committee members in mixed local and …

  • deaf accessibility
  • hard of hearing
  • teleconferencing
  • videoconferencing
  • sign language
  • CART
  • video relay service
  • remote participation
  • telecommunications accessibility

• Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

  Anna C. Cavender (2007) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper proposes a networked multimedia platform to address the specific challenges deaf and hard of hearing students face in mainstream university classrooms. The author identifies three core problems. First, isolation: as more deaf students ente…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • higher education
  • sign language
  • captioning
  • remote interpreting
  • video relay service
  • inclusive design
  • participatory design