Audio description is one of the many services available to guarantee accessibility to audiovisual media. It describes and narrates images and sounds and resulting audio is then mixed with the original soundtrack. Audio description is a complex...
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Audio description is one of the many services available to guarantee accessibility to audiovisual media. It describes and narrates images and sounds and resulting audio is then mixed with the original soundtrack. Audio description is a complex process that touches production, distribution and reception. Researching Audio Description: New Approachesgathers academic information and data from the many existing research projects, practices, and training across the world. The book has a telescopic approach, from two introductory chapters where accessibility in general is contextualised as a human right, and the basic concepts of disability and impairment are explored. Research on specific features for audio description script drafting are focused in the second part of the book, with a view to revising existing funded projects and their outcomes. The book offers a wealth of information on both the practical and philosophical, from different approaches in perception and cognition, and different research methodologies. Project information contained in the contributions identifies trends in current research-funded studies which will be valuable as a pointer towards future proposals. The book shows the dynamic state of audio description practice, training and research, while contributing towards the growing critical mass needed in building the field of accessibility studies.
Agnieszka Szarkowska, Anna Jankowska, Krzysztof Krejtz, and Jarosław Kowalski.: 16. Open art : designing accessible content in a multimedia guide app for visitors with and without sensory impairments
Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero: 1. Audio description and accessibility studies : a work in progress
Gian Maria Greco: 2. On accessibility as a human right, with an application to media accessibility
Gary Ellis: 3. Impairment and disability : challenging concepts of "normality"
Jana Holsanova: 4. A cognitive approach to audio description
Carme Mangiron and Xiaochun Zhang: 5. Game accessibility for the blind : current overview and the potential application of audio description as the way forward
Iwona Mazur and Agnieszka Chmiel: 6. Should audio description reflect the way sighted viewers look at films? : combining eye-tracking and reception study data
José Dávila-Montes and Pilar Orero: 7. Audio description washes brighter? : a study in brand names and advertising
Nazaret Fresno, Judit Castellà, and Olga Soler-Vilagelia: 8. "What should I say?" : tentative criteria to prioritize information in the audio description of film characters
Anna Jankowska and Monika Zabroncka: 9. How co-speech gestures are rendered in audio description : a case study
Agniezka Walczak: 10. Foreign language class with audio description : a case study
Kulnaree Sueroj and Phatteera Sarakornborrirak: 11. An overview of audio description in Thai television
Chris Taylor: 12. The ADLAB project : audio description for the blind
Pilar Orero: 13. From DTV4ALL to HBB4ALL : accessibility in European broadcasting
Anna Matamala: 14. The ALST project : technologies for audio description
Anna Sadowska: 15. Audio description of press illustrations for young readers by young volunteers
Agnieszka Szarkowska, Anna Jankowska, Krzysztof Krejtz, and Jarosław Kowalski: 16. Open art : designing accessible content in a multimedia guide app for visitors with and without sensory impairments
