Meeting minutes
initial discussions upon joining
AJ: working on research project related to captioning for children for his PhD
AJ: Info can be found here: https://
Emeline: front end developer and working on research on the overall school experience for students with visual impairments
Caidin: works on accessibility at Data Recognition Corp, UX Research and Design
Danielle: works on research at ETS K-20, alot of work on cognitive accessibility, intersectionalities, and low incidence disabilities
Bilingual Resources for Literacy Development by Melissa Malzkuhn
Melissa: <shares slides>
Melissa: founded ML2 Lab, with focus on literacy development for deaf children
… <goes through slides>
… literacy development, 3D signing avatars, research, pulling together many specialists and leaders from the Deaf community
… The Baobab has been translated into multiple spoken and sign language pairs
<plays eat your vegetables storybook>
<students can click written words to see the corresponding sign>
Melissa: there are 3 modes in each book: Watch, Read and Learn
… this was based on research watching how children acquire literacy
… illustration and design integrated with watching the story in ASL
… in watch mode
… in read mode, you get more of a book look, and finger spelling representation, which is a bridge from signing to literacy
in learn mode, you get more focus on vocabulary
In user study, there was a clear difference in what students were interested in, based on when they were first exposed to ASL
… During COVID, some students were going home to signing families and some were not. We created ASL Literacy Activities, which has over 4000 subscriptions so far
<shows video overview of the activities with different activities for each day of the week>
Melissa: Another thing we are working on is 3D Signing Characters
… aim to create fun, funny, signing characters for games
… first issue was fluency of a 3D signing character
… to do this we use full body suit to capture all of the motion of a person signing
… challenging to capture tone and facial grammar
<shows video of the process>
<shows video of actual 3D character signing and the meeting's interpreter is able to translated to spoken english>
Melissa: Moves on to slide that shows current Research/Design Inquiries
… focus on quality design experience with illustrations and sign language together
… we are doing this with families at our core, since most deaf students are born into hearing families
… if the family is signing in the home, this helps with all areas of development as well as literacy
TPAC Meeting Update
Maud: <shows notes on the wiki @ https://
… jumping down to collaborations with other groups
… COGA has clear line between accessibility and education
… our group will have more blurred lines due to the need for foundational experiences
… There is a Ruby tool we'd like to dig into
… Several groups are interested in collaborating: Internationalization, W3C Audio Books, EPub, COGA
… NGOs as well
… possible to new outcome for our group: questionaire questions for taskforce self reviews
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