Title:
Accessibility perspectives on enabling South African sign language in the South African National Accessibility Portal
Publication Year:
2009
Abstract:
Persons with disabilities are often marginalised from economy and society due to the lack of access to disability related information and services. Through the use of c access to the information and services can often be obtained e.g. a visually impaired user using a screen reader. The Deaf however, cannot use such technology to break the barrier because of differences in literacy and comfort with written material. The Deaf thus requires another intervention to improve their access to information and services. One such mechanism is by embedding animated Sign Language in Web pages. Keywords: National Accessibility Portal, NAP, Animated sign language, Web accessibility, Human disabilities, Assistive technologies.
Place:
Madrid, Spain
Series:
2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A), Madrid, Spain, 20-21 April 2009
Volume:
2009
Pages:
62 - 65
Item Type:
Conference Paper
Language:
en