{"id":25261,"date":"2025-09-03T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:31:40","slug":"digital-engagement-of-d-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-tiktok-users-insights-from-the-current-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/?p=25261","title":{"rendered":"Digital Engagement of d\/Deaf and Hard of Hearing TikTok Users: Insights from the Current Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ines Ko\u017euh, Laura Horvat, Andra\u017e Petrov\u010di\u010d and Irena Lovren\u010di\u010d Dr\u017eani\u010d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><br>This paper explores the digital engagement of the d\/Deaf and hard of hearing individuals on TikTok. While the platform provides captioning of videos, some accessibility challenges persist. These include inconsistent captioning, deficient synchronization, and limited support for sign language content. Although video format prevails, the d\/Deaf and hard of hearing users actively use TikTok to build communities and raise awareness through content. In our study, we conceptually reviewed current literature on inclusivity and accessibility of TikTok\u2019s design and provided recommendations for improved user experience for these users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/digin.14.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of digin.14.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f2809bd3-f26d-448a-b90c-0d6a1a1b2c68\" href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/digin.14.pdf\">digin.14<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/digin.14.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f2809bd3-f26d-448a-b90c-0d6a1a1b2c68\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ines Ko\u017euh, Laura Horvat, Andra\u017e Petrov\u010di\u010d and Irena Lovren\u010di\u010d Dr\u017eani\u010d ABSTRACTThis paper explores the digital engagement of the d\/Deaf and hard of hearing individuals on TikTok. While the platform provides captioning of videos, some accessibility challenges persist. These include inconsistent captioning, deficient synchronization, and limited support for sign language content. Although video format prevails, the d\/Deaf and hard of hearing users actively use TikTok to build communities and raise awareness through content. In our study, we conceptually reviewed current literature on inclusivity and accessibility of TikTok\u2019s design and provided recommendations for improved user experience for these users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doi-digin-2025","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26269,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions\/26269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/is.ijs.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}