Deaf and Hard of Hearing

1. Reading Aloud & Highlighting

• Read entire text aloud - B, LV, CLL, D/HOH

2. Reorganizing, Simplifying, & Translating

2.1 Sign Language Translation

• Translate from sign language to text - D/HOH
• Translate from text to sign language - D/HOH
• Provide real-time translation of speech to sign language for live feeds, streaming audio and multimedia content - D/HOH
• Retrieve existing sign language multimedia (e.g. link to an existing sign language version of a video)- D/HOH

2.2 Other Transformations

• Transform content to conform to accessibility standards - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH

3. Supplementing Page Content

Most of the following can be done either by an automated tool or by collaborative/third party markup:

3.1 Page & Site Level Enhancements

• Support collaborative third party markup (customized accessibility scripts for web pages that are designed by and shared among users) - B, LV, PHY, CLL, D/HOH

3.2 Transcription & Captioning of Audio

• Generate or retrieve a text alternative for audio/multimedia content - D/HOH
• Provide visual alerts for system sounds - D/HOH
• Provide interactive transcript - D/HOH, CLL

4. Audio Enhancement

Automatically do AND/OR give the user the ability to.

• Reduce/eliminate background noise - D/HOH, CLL
• Adjust pace of speech/audio - D/HOH, CLL
• Adjust volume and pitch - D/HOH, CLL

5. Error Prevention & Recovery

• Help minimize errors - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
• Provide general strategies and contextual aid to safely recover from errors - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH

8. Preference & Privacy Features

• Automatically determine and adjust settings - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
• Choose preferred features and adjust settings with a user-friendly feature wizard - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH
• Provide settings and options that are easy to try out and modify (because settings may cause confusion) - B, LV, CLL, PHY, D/HOH