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Development of Tool to Promote Web Accessibility for Deaf

Authors

Ahmad A. Alhamed and Maha S. Alqhtani, King Saud University, KSA

Abstract

This paper presents an intelligent tool to summarize Arabic articles and translate the summary to Arabic sign language based on avatar technology. This tool was designed for improving web accessibility and help deaf people for acquiring more benefits. Of the most important problems in this task, is that the deaf people were facing many difficulties in reading online articles because of their limited reading skills. To solve this problem the proposed tool includes a summarizer that summaries the articles, so deaf people will read the summary instead of reading the whole article .Also the tool use avatar technology to translate the summary to sing language.

Keywords

Accessibility, Arabic sign langauge, Key terms summarizer, Avatar.

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