1. Generalization of Tooltips
Case studies with South African Sign Language video for Deaf users for the Mozilla
Firefox Browser
By: Saira Adams
Supervisor : Prof William Tucker

2. Overview Tooltips Overview User Requirements Requirements Analysis
Tools to be used
Project Plan

3. What are Tooltips?
A message that appears when user hovers over an icon with a cursor.
Assists users in learning to use an application.
Text-Based

4. The Problem Tooltips are text-based
Tooltips are very small therefore visually impaired struggle to read them
Deaf Users communicate in South African Sign Language.
The Problem
Tooltips are text-based

5. The Solution: Generalization of tooltips

6. South African Sign Language Video Tooltips (Main Focus)

7. For visually impaired & illiterate users
Audio Based Tooltips :
For visually impaired & illiterate users
( just an idea of generalization)

8. Why Mozilla Firefox Browser?
Open Source Software
Internet Browsing application( used daily by computer users)
Will be beneficial for all browser apps in the future.
Why Mozilla Firefox Browser?

9. Why Desktop & Not Mobile application?
Tooltips do not work on Mobile applications.
Targeted at Deaf users who are doing work, research and day to day internet browsing.
Users are always using an internet browser application while on their desktop computers

10. User Requirements Desktop Computer Mozilla Firefox Browser
Internet Connectivity

11. Requirements Analysis
Tooltip Preference in Mozilla Firefox Browser is Selected
Requirements
Analysis
User hovers over an icon
SASL Tooltip will Play
Tooltip disappears when the cursor is moved off the icon

12. Tools to be used

13. Project Plan for Term 2 Download Mozilla Firefox Source Code.
Create Storyboard.
Create Use Case Diagram
Create Prototype
Test prototype
Term 2 presentation & final documentation

14. References
[1] P. Christensson. Techterms.
[2] P. Clark. How do deaf children learn to read?
[3] N. Emberton. Computer hope.
[4] B. L. U. Group. The linux information project.
[5] M. Oppenheim. Speech and touch enhanced interface for visually impaired users. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 7(3):146–156, 2013
[6] H. Petrie, W. Fisher, K. Weimann, and G. Weber.
[7]Augmenting icons for deaf computer users. In Extended abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, page 1131, Vienna Austria, 2004.
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Case studies with signed language video and audio tooltips for Deaf and visually impaired users for the Mozilla
Firefox Browser