Sign Language Links in Web Content

نویسندگان

  • Norma Thompson
  • Deborah I. Fels
چکیده

On the World Wide Web (WWW), the presence of sign languages is very limited because of the dominance of text-based web development technologies. There is a lack of tools available to create webpages that do not contain text. It is thus difficult for Deaf sign language users to have a web presence in their native language and forces them to work in a second, less expressive language, text. The lack of sign language content on-line also means that Deaf culture has unequal representation in a space that is claimed to be one of the great equalizers of culture and language [2].

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تاریخ انتشار 2007