From DTV4ALL to HBB4ALL: Accessibility in European Broadcasting

Orero, Pilar

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56917-2_13

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“…TS have followed a similar path. For example, in the beginning, quantitative-type studies (ADLAB PRO, 2017;Orero, 2016;Taylor, 2016) have sought to identify general trends and audience habits with various types of impaired capacity. In contrast, the more current studies (whether online or offline) prefer qualitative methods to clarify the interaction between the subject and a multimodal text.…”

Section: Accessible Translation As a Communicative Tool: A Partial Consensusmentioning

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Accessibility to Leisure and Culture

Chica-Núñez

Jiménez-Hurtado

2020

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Despite efforts undertaken by the public administration (ministries, public museums) and companies (private museums, tourist centres, streaming platforms) to bring multimodal cultural heritage closer to all citizens, the true extent of access for those with disabilities or those at risk of exclusion remains largely unknown. In recent years, Translation Studies in the field of audiovisual translation have shown a particular interest in analysing the way in which the impaired public accesses multimodal contents of all kinds. Methods (qualitative and quantitative) from other disciplines have been applied and replicated, creating a profusion of studies that seek to measure and evaluate the quality of access. This article presents the PRA2 platform, an online portal for the evaluation of accessible audiovisual resources that proposes a new way of analysing the quality of reception by developing a series of online questionnaires to target the sensory and cognitively impaired public in particular. The article presents the main features of this valuable research tool as well as the preliminary results of a study hosted by the portal regarding audio description (AD) for the Guernica painting.

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Section: Accessible Translation As a Communicative Tool: A Partial Consensusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility to Leisure and Culture

Chica-Núñez

Jiménez-Hurtado

2020

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“…Audio description (AD) is a mode of accessible AVT, primarily aimed at blind or visually-impaired audiences, that facilitates access to visual content by translating visual elements into verbal commentary (Walczak & Fryer, 2017). Increased awareness of the social mediation role of AD has contributed to its incorporation into media accessibility regulations across countries (Orero, 2016), further leading to its popularisation as a classroom tool. Contrary to text-to-text translation or other forms of AVT, AD is intersemiotic: the transfer occurs from a visual system to a linguistic one, thus activating different mental processes in the translator or audio describer (Holsanova, 2016).…”

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Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool in the Foreign Language Classroom

Bausells-Espín

2022

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Audio description (AD) is an intersemiotic mode of audiovisual translation where images are translated into words to facilitate access to visual content for visually-impaired audiences. Over the last decade, it has gained prominence in foreign language research, as its formal particularities and condition as a communication-oriented and process-based activity present a fertile ground for designing innovative classroom tasks. This research was conducted with students of Spanish at the University of Manchester, and it investigates participants’ perceptions about a classroom AD project. The exploratory analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from participants’ responses to end-of-project questionnaires leads to the formulation of a ‘triple-connection hypothesis’: a direct relationship between perceptions of difficulty of the main challenges of AD, perceptions of usefulness of AD for developing the skills required to overcome those challenges, and perceptions of own learning progress thanks to AD. The findings show that AD is perceived by students as especially useful for developing integrated skills, communicative skills and lexical skills, to a greater or lesser extent depending on the difficulty perceived. Lay Summary Audio description (AD) is an additional voice that describes what happens in a TV show, a movie or a theatre play when characters are not speaking. This helps people with visual problems to follow the plot. AD describes characters’ expressions or movements, places or objects, or reads text that appears on screen. It is a special type of translation: instead of translating from words to words, it translates from images to words. Recently, AD has become more available and popular, catching the attention of foreign language teachers. They have started using it in class, creating activities where students write audio descriptions to improve language skills, such as vocabulary, or record them to practice speaking. Creating an AD requires students to use clear and direct language, use summarising skills, and make a lot of careful choices. It also helps them learn about the needs of people with visual difficulties. So far, teachers have reported positive results. To continue exploring how useful AD activities are for language learning, we did an AD classroom project with students of Spanish, and we collected their opinions about it. This information can help teachers design truly beneficial AD activities. Our students completed a survey at the end of the project to tell us how difficult AD had been for them, how useful they found it for language learning, and how much it helped them improve. We discovered that when students found AD difficult, they also found it more useful, and they learned more. We also discovered the opposite: when they found it less difficult, they also found it less useful, and they learned less. Finally, we discovered that AD especially helped them to improve communication and speaking abilities, to build vocabulary and sound natural, and to practice several skills at once.

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Audio description on smartphones: making cinema accessible for visually impaired audiences

Walczak

2017

Univ Access Inf Soc

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From DTV4ALL to HBB4ALL: Accessibility in European Broadcasting

Cited by 4 publications

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Accessibility to Leisure and Culture

Accessibility to Leisure and Culture

Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool in the Foreign Language Classroom

Audio description on smartphones: making cinema accessible for visually impaired audiences

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