The recent publication of ISO 9241-171, ISO 9241-20, and the User Needs Summary of the ISO/IEC JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility (SWG-A) each provide guidance and understanding to support the needs of users with disabilities and improve the accessibility of technology. These documents, among others, provide new understanding of accessible computing systems for all users. However, the ...

Speech recognition systems have advanced to the point where they are a viable option for providing note taking assistance for deaf and hard of hearing students. College lectures, which frequently contain domain-specific or uncommon terminology, provide a challenge for these systems that typically rely on a dictionary of common words to guide recognition. This paper reports on a prototype text a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To date, no studies have examined vocabulary outcomes of children meeting all 3 components of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) guidelines (hearing screening by 1 month, diagnosis of hearing loss by 3 months, and intervention by 6 months of age). The primary purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of the current EHDI 1-3-6 policy on voc...

Almost 90% of the children born to life-long profoundly deaf parents are hearing. Within this extraordinary family setting, hearing children of deaf parents are exposed to and interact with two differing cultural, social and linguistic systems: that of their deaf parents and the Deaf community, and that of hearing peers and adults. The present paper focuses on cultural identity and affiliation ...

The People's Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in the...

The SignSpeak project will be the first step to approach sign language recognition and translation at levels already obtained in similar technologies such as automatic speech recognition or statistical machine translation of spoken languages. Deaf communities revolve around sign languages as they are their natural means of communication. Although deaf, hard of hearing and hearing signers can co...

The SignSpeak project will be the first step to approach sign language recognition and translation at levels already obtained in similar technologies such as automatic speech recognition or statistical machine translation of spoken languages. Deaf communities revolve around sign languages as they are their natural means of communication. Although deaf, hard of hearing and hearing signers can co...

This study documents the views and attitudes of stakeholders Hong Kong’s Sign Bilingualism Co-enrollment (SLCO) Education Programme established in 2006, to identify an emerging ecology based on SLCO classrooms a primary school which deaf hard-of-hearing (DHH) as well hearing participants, teachers students alike, collaborated create inclusive culture environment. Qualitative data were collected...