Annotation-based video enrichment for blind people: A pilot study on the use of earcons and speech synthesis

ASSETS'11: Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 123-130

  Encelle, Benoît ^a   Ollagnier Beldame, Magali ^a   Pouchot, Stéphanie ^b   Prié, Yannick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b University Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

accessibility for blind people; audio notification; video accessibility; video annotation; video enrichment

Indexed keywords

AUDIO NOTIFICATION; BLIND PEOPLE; VIDEO ACCESSIBILITY; VIDEO ANNOTATIONS; VIDEO ENRICHMENT;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 81855228030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2049536.2049560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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