Welcome to the RtF - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group

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The following new page has been added to the DHHWG:

Welcome to the RtF - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group!

Feel free to post your comments, ideas, and discussion to the mailing
list. Please remember to stay on the topic of accessibility features
for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to be respectful of
other contributors' viewpoints.

A reminder of what this group is all about: The objective of the Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Working Group (DHHWG) is to identify the needs and
preferred access features of people with various types of hearing
problems. This group will work in conjunction with RtF's Access
Features MasterList group to determine necessary features to transform
web content into a non-auditory format that is usable by individuals
with limited or no hearing.

One deliverable from this group will be a list of potential solutions
and an analysis of their relative usefulness to people with different
hearing issues and severity. This group will communicate with software
exploration, research, and development projects to experiment with new
technologies and methods.

Possible areas of discussion and research include automatic captioning
of multimedia, speech recognition, and translation to/from sign
language.


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- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.