Intelligent Streaming Server for Non Accessible Contents Stored on Web Servers to Disabled People: Signwriting Case

One of the main challenges a multimedia web server must face is to serve to its users the requested content in a fast and efficient way. In order to do so, the web server is required to meet several specifics needs from each client. Nowadays, accessing to multimedia content is becoming more and more popular among users with vision or hearing problems. That sort of users needs an adapted software/hardware client in order to reproduce multimedia contents, which in fact is a restriction for the transmission. Furthermore, this special client is often a wireless system which introduces even more hurdles into the problem. However, multimedia web servers don’t take into account the special requirements of that type of clients, hence they process their request as if they were like any other. For the purpose of solving the needs of the disabled people accessing to multimedia content, intelligence could be added to the streaming server. In that way it will be capable of distinguish the clients’ characteristics and the properties of the communication in order to provide the users with the most suitable content.