TITLE: Requirements for Maintaining Web Access for Hearing-Impaired Individuals

AUTHORS(s) & AFFILIATION(s): Daniel M. Berry, Computer Science Department, University of Waterloo

KEYWORD(s): access, closed captioning, e-mail, fax, hearing impaired, lipreading, lipsynching, movies, sight impaired, talking head, telephone, textual and graphical interfaces, TTY, TV, video phone, voice and audio interfaces, voice synthesis

PRESENTER / CONTACT PERSON: Daniel M. Berry

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ABSTRACT:

The current textual and graphical interfaces to computing, including the Web, is a dream come true for the hearing impaired. However, improved technology for voice and audio interface threaten to end this dream. Requirements are identified for continued access to computing for the hearing impaired. Consideration is given also to improving access to the sight impaired.

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