Editing Computer accessibility (section)

=== Hearing impairment ===
While [[sound user interface]]s have a secondary role in common desktop computing, these interfaces are usually limited to using [[Sound effect|sound effects]] as feedback.  Some software producers take into account people who cannot hear due to hearing impairments, [[silence]] requirements, or lack of sound-producing software.  The system sounds like beeps can be substituted or supplemented with visual notifications and captioned text (akin to [[closed captioning]]). Closed captions are a very popular means of relaying information for the Deaf and hearing-impaired communities. Modern [[computer animation]] also allows for translation of content into sign language by means of sign language avatars, such as SiMAX.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sowartis.com/projects/simax/#1481043240786-c3380c92-a941 |title=SiMAX |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2018 |website=Sowartis |access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2049536.2049557 |title=Assessing the deaf user perspective on sign language avatars |last1=Kipp |first1=Michael |last2=Nguyen |first2=Quan |last3=Heloir |first3=Alexis |last4=Matthes |first4=Silke  |date=October 2011 |publisher=[[Association for Computing Machinery]] |book-title=Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS-11) |pages=107–114 |location=Dundee, Scotland |doi=10.1145/2049536.2049557 |conference=13th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility |url-access=subscription }}</ref>