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From Automation to User Empowerment: Investigating the Role of a Semi-automatic Tool in Social Media Accessibility
This article focuses on evaluating SONAAR (Social Networks Accessible Authoring), a tool that combines automation and end-user empowerment to enhance the accessibility of social media content. SONAAR aims to increase user engagement in creating accessible ...
Exploring the Benefits and Applications of Video-Span Selection and Search for Real-Time Support in Sign Language Video Comprehension among ASL Learners
- Saad Hassan,
- Caluã de Lacerda Pataca,
- Akhter Al Amin,
- Laleh Nourian,
- Diego Navarro,
- Sooyeon Lee,
- Alexis Gordon,
- Matthew Watkins,
- Garreth W. Tigwell,
- Matt Huenerfauth
People learning American Sign Language (ASL) and practicing their comprehension skills will often encounter complex ASL videos that may contain unfamiliar signs. Existing dictionary tools require users to isolate a single unknown sign before initiating a ...
Exploring Blind and Low-Vision Youth’s Digital Access Needs in School: Toward Accessible Instructional Technologies
Blind and low-vision (BLV) youth have been excluded from technology-mediated learning in school for two decades due to the systemic inaccessibility of K-12 instructional technologies. Accessibility guidelines that address BLV youth’s needs would help ...
“It Was Something I Naturally Found Worked and Heard About Later”: An Investigation of Body Doubling with Neurodivergent Participants
Body doubling has emerged as a community-driven phenomenon primarily employed by neurodivergent individuals. In this work, we survey 220 people to investigate how, when, and why they engage in body doubling and their own definitions for it. The community ...
International Guidelines for Photosensitive Epilepsy: Gap Analysis and Recommendations
People with photosensitive epilepsy may have seizures caused by flashing lights, patterns, and video sequences. Because of this, there is increasing interest among researchers, developers, and companies toward making content safer. There are five major ...
