Literature Reviews

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

• From Assistive Technology to a Web Accessibility Service

  Peter G. Fairweather, Vicki L. Hanson, Sam R. Detweiler, Richard S. Schwerdtfeger (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

  This paper from IBM Research examines the challenge of making the increasingly complex World Wide Web accessible to people with sensory, cognitive, and motor disabilities. The authors argue that while evolving web architectures — moving from simple H…

  • web accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • adaptive interfaces
  • web services
  • proxy-based accessibility
  • content transformation

• Mobile Sign Language Translation System for Deaf Community

  Mehrez Boulares, Mohamed Jemni (2012) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Tunis presents a mobile web service for translating written text into sign language using a 3D virtual signing agent on Android devices. The system addresses two interrelated accessibility challenges: deaf and hard o…

  • sign language
  • deaf accessibility
  • mobile accessibility
  • machine translation
  • signing avatar
  • assistive technology
  • web services
  • 3D animation