Accessibility of Vendor-Created Database Tutorials for People with Disabilities

Oud, Joanne

doi:10.6017/ital.v35i4.9469

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“…In many of the cases in which there were no placement issues, there was also no fonted information on screen. YouTube's speech-to-text performed better than one might expect based on Oud (2016) and performed particularly well with speakers with relatively unaccented American English. It was relatively rare for captions to include background information.…”

Section: Adherence To Captioning Standardsmentioning

confidence: 67%

“…While companies like YouTube have worked to improve their automated captions, researchers examining educational material found that automated captions were often, at best, difficult to use and called for content creators to take the time to edit You-Tube's auto-generated captions (Oud, 2016). This problem of poor quality autogenerated captions has led some in the disability advocacy community to refer to them as "craptions."…”

Section: Captioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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College TV News Websites: Accessibility and Mobile Readiness

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College television newscasts serve as training grounds for future broadcast journalists and should help students understand emerging trends in the field, such as social media use and developing web and multimedia skills. Increasingly, television news websites need to connect with technologically diverse audiences, and the industry is under increasing legal pressure to make its websites more accessible, particularly in terms of captioning. In addition, with smartphone use becoming almost ubiquitous and people turning to their smartphones as news sources, the industry needs to make sure their websites are responsive to mobile devices. This study examined award-winning college television news websites to see if they are preparing students for the realities of communicating with technologically diverse audiences by examining website mobile readiness and accessibility, including captioning adoption. While most sites were usable on mobile devices, about a quarter did not offer captioning, and there were wide spread accessibility problems.

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Section: Adherence To Captioning Standardsmentioning

confidence: 67%

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confidence: 99%

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“…However, one of the most common themes that arises in regard to providing services to this unique population, is the idea of making library audiovisual materials accessible through the use of text alternatives such as transcripts or captions. Some authors have discussed the use of captions in the context of internally created library instructional materials (Clossen, 2014;Parton, 2015;Clossen and Proces, 2017), while others have emphasized the importance of transcripts or captions regarding library collections or purchased content such as DVDs and streaming video databases (Riley, 2009;Oud, 2016). When it comes to developing instructional materials such as videos and tutorials, libraries are increasingly realizing the importance of providing captions.…”

Section: Distance Library Services For Deaf and Hard Of Hearing Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The problem with automatically generated captions is their notorious inaccuracy, which can alter the meaning of content and decrease comprehension for individuals who rely solely on the text to learn material. (Parton, 2015;Oud, 2016;Clossen and Proces, 2017;Smith, Allman, and Crocker, 2017). For example, in another study, Parton (2015) found that for every minute of YouTube captions, there was an average of 7.7 phrases "that were unintelligible or altered the meaning of the message" (p. 12).…”

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Accessibility of distance library services for deaf and hard of hearing users

Getts

Stewart

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to review existing literature on distance library services for individuals with disabilities with a specific focus on deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) users and provide strategies for creating an online library that is accessible to this community. Design/methodology/approach The authors reviewed articles covering distance library services for D/HH users and then identified specific parts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 that are applicable to the D/HH community. By using the literature, strategies for developing and purchasing accessible electronic library resources are presented. Findings While there is a breadth of literature focused on creating accessible resources for online libraries, there is a gap when it comes to D/HH users. Libraries can cater to this community by providing text-based alternatives for all library instructional materials and working closely with vendors to ensure that library databases are accessible. Practical implications The authors present strategies for creating and converting electronic resources and services that are accessible to D/HH users. Originality/value This paper fills a gap in literature by addressing fully online library services for users with disabilities with a particular focus on meeting the needs of D/HH users in a distance-learning environment.

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“…Common accessibility problems include the lack of alternate descriptions, using visual cues to describe interactions in the user interface, fuzzy visuals, and audios. 10 Furthermore, the sightcentered nature of the digital library creates problems for blind users, such as the absence of meaningful descriptions for nontext content and instructions, along with information about the digital library's features due to missing textual or verbal instructions. 11 The traditional usage of a digital library makes a canned or routine utilization of its collections, which may be broadened by making computational ready collections.…”

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Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

Fayyaz

Khusro

Ullah

2021

ITAL

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People access and share information over the web and in other digital environments, including digital libraries, in the form of documents such as books, articles, technical reports, etc. These documents are in a variety of formats, of which the Portable Document Format (PDF) is most widely used because of its emphasis on preserving the layout of the original material. The retrieval of relevant material from these derivative documents is challenging for information retrieval (IR) because the rich semantic structure of these documents is lost. The retrieval of important units such as images, figures, algorithms, mathematical formulas, and tables becomes a challenge. Among these elements, tables are particularly important because they can add value to the resource description, discovery, and accessibility of documents not only on the web but also in libraries if they are made retrievable and presentable to readers. Sighted users comprehend tables for sensemaking using visual cues, but blind and visually impaired users must rely on assistive technologies, including text-to-speech and screen readers, to comprehend tables. However, these technologies do not pay sufficient attention to tables in order to effectively present tables to visually impaired individuals. Therefore, ways must be found to make tables in PDF documents not only retrievable but also comprehensible. Before developing such solutions, it is necessary to review the available assistive technologies, tools, and frameworks for their capabilities, strengths, and limitations from the comprehension perspective of blind and visually impaired people, along with suitable environments like digital libraries. We found no such review article that critically and analytically presents and evaluates these technologies. To fill this gap in the literature, this review paper reports on the current state of the accessibility of PDF documents, digital libraries, assistive technologies, tools, and frameworks that make PDF tables comprehensible and accessible to blind and visually impaired people. The study findings have implications for libraries, information sciences, and information retrieval.

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Accessibility of Vendor-Created Database Tutorials for People with Disabilities

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Cited by 6 publications

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College TV News Websites: Accessibility and Mobile Readiness

College TV News Websites: Accessibility and Mobile Readiness

Accessibility of distance library services for deaf and hard of hearing users

Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents

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