Optimizing web-accessibility for deaf people and the hearing impaired utilizing a sign language dictionary embedded in a browser

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• 作者：Søren Staal Jensen ; Tina Øvad
• 关键词：Sign language ; Deaf people ; User driven innovation ; Metacognitive comprehension strategies ; Prototyping ; Eye tracking
• 刊名：Cognition, Technology & Work
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：4
• 页码：717-731
• 全文大小：2,778 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
  Computing Methodologies
  
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1435-5566
• 卷排序：18

文摘

Deaf people have certain problems navigating on the Internet. This is a subject, which has not received adequate scientific attention. Via an experiment with both deaf and hearing people, text was identified as a problem for deaf people when navigating on websites. A prototype of a website with an embedded sign language dictionary, which translates keywords to sign language, was developed and tested against the same website without the dictionary. This test revealed that deaf people who were given the sign language prototype completed a given task significantly faster than deaf people who were given the website without the dictionary. A final test showed that deaf and hearing people use the same number of metacognitive comprehension strategies when reading on websites, but the frequency of their usage was different. Deaf people make more use of a search and match strategy, which is a behavior this prototype supports.