Degraded reality: Using VR/AR to simulate visual impairments [PDF]
The effects of eye disease cannot be depicted accurately using traditional media. Consequently, public understanding of eye disease is often poor. We present a VR/AR system for simulating common visual impairments, including disability glare, spatial ...
Jones, P. R., Ometto, G.
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Audio describing foreign films
This article presents the main challenges of audio describing foreign films: synchronising the translation of foreign language dialogue with audio description, identifying speakers, describing culture-bound elements, and dealing with intertextuality ...
Agnieszka Szarkowska, Anna Jankowska
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Accessibility and generalizability: Are social media effects moderated by age or digital literacy?
An emerging empirical regularity suggests that older people use and respond to social media very differently than younger people. Older people are the fastest-growing population of Internet and social media users in the US, and this heterogeneity will ...
Kevin Munger +3 more
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Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates [PDF]
This paper describes a tool for recombining the logical structure from an XML document with the typeset appearance of the corresponding PDF document. The tool uses the XML representation as a template for the insertion of the logical structure into the ...
Brailsford, David F. +2 more
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Web Accessibility Requirements for Media Players [PDF]
Video Content continues to strenghten on the Web, because of that fact, it is neccessary to include video content with suitable accessibility requirements to be used by all people.
González, María +3 more
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Lights, Camera, Access: A Closeup on Audiovisual Media Accessibility and Aphasia
The presence of audiovisual media is a mainstay in the lives of many, increasingly so with technological progress. Accessing video and audio content, however, can be challenging for people with diverse needs.
Alexandre Nevsky +3 more
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In support of a wide notion of media accessibility: Access to content and access to creation
The prevailing narrow consideration of media accessibility (MA) as concerning only persons with sensory disabilities poses a series of epistemological and terminological issues, and limits the potential of MA to instigate social change.
Pablo Romero-Fresco
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Using multimedia to enhance the accessibility of the learning environment for disabled students: reflections from the Skills for Access project [PDF]
As educators' awareness of their responsibilities towards ensuring the accessibility of the learning environment to disabled students increases, significant debate surrounds the implications of accessibility requirements on educational multimedia.
Gregor, Peter +2 more
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Delivery in American Sign Language interpreting: A case study of The Circle USA
Signed language interpreting can be carried out in a sign-to-sign, spoken-to-sign, or sign-to-spoken language direction. In the case of Season 5 of Netflix’s The Circle,the hearing interpreter Paris McTizic carries out a sign-to-spoken language ...
Zeynep Melissa Seyfioglu
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Easy to Read as Multimode Accessibility Service
Media accessibility is becoming mainstream. While it cannot compete for popularity with the two original fields –architecture and design accessibility– it is slowly gaining acknowledgment. Subtitling was and still
ROCÍO BERNABÉ CARO, PILAR ORERO
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