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ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
ClassInFocus: enabling improved visual attention strategies for deaf and hard of hearing students
Deaf and hard of hearing students must juggle their visual attention in current classroom settings. Managing many visual sources of information (instructor, interpreter or caption...
Anna Carpenter Cavender, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richar...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Accessible videodescription On-Demand
Providing blind and visually impaired people with the descriptions of key visual elements can greatly improve the accessibility of video, film and television. This project present...
Claude Chapdelaine, Langis Gagnon
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Validity and reliability of web accessibility guidelines
Although widely used, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have not been studied from the viewpoint of their validity and reliability. WCAG 2.0 explicitly claim that they a...
Giorgio Brajnik
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Speaking through pictures: images vs. icons
People with aphasia, a condition that impairs the ability to understand or generate written or spoken language, are aided by assistive technology that helps them communicate throu...
Xiaojuan Ma, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Sonya S. Nikol...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Comparing evaluation techniques for text readability software for adults with intellectual disabilities
In this paper, we compare alternative techniques for evaluating a software system for simplifying the readability of texts for adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID). We ...
Matt Huenerfauth, Lijun Feng, Noemie Elhadad