Feature Article: "Radio for the Deaf"

The role of the Web in widening access

Abstract

As part of her undergraduate studies at Fachhochschule Ulm, Germany, Heidi Brandner elected to spend her
final year in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh. There she was required to complete the
equivalent of an Honours dissertation. Under the local supervision of Dr Hazel Hall, and with support of her
remote tutor Professor Reinhold von Schwerin, she investigated how the Web might be used to mediate radio
broadcasts for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. This article presents the main findings of the full study, as
summarised by Heidi Brandner and Reinhold von Schwerin. The authors would like to acknowledge and thank
Hazel Hall for her input to the work.