Audio description meets Easy-to-Read and Plain Language: results from a questionnaire and a focus group in Catalonia

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• dc.contributor.author Arias Badia, Blanca
• dc.contributor.author Matamala, Anna
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-12T09:05:41Z
• dc.date.available 2021-01-12T09:05:41Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract Providing accessible audiovisual content which caters for diverse user needs is one of the challenges of today’s digitized society. Easy-to-understand language is currently being explored as a powerful tool to foster accessibility among different user groups, including persons with cognitive disabilities and reading difficulties. Audio description is an access service that provides an aural translation of visuals for those who cannot access the images in audiovisual content. This paper discusses whether audio description could incorporate the principles of easy-to-understand language in order to produce easy-to-understand audio descriptions by focusing on the Catalan working context. Specifically, the paper reports on a survey distributed among experts in Easy-to-Read and Plain Language in Catalonia and a focus group which brought together audio description and Easy-to-Read experts working in Catalonia to discuss the feasibility and potential means of implementation of an easy-to-understand audio description. Both research actions were undertaken in the framework of the EASIT project.en
• dc.description.sponsorship This research is part of the EASIT project funded by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education programs (2018-1-ES01-KA203-05275) from the European Commission. The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views of the authors only, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The authors are also members of TransMedia Catalonia, a research group funded by the Catalan Government, under the SGR funding scheme (2017SGR113). Blanca Arias-Badia’s participation in this research has been financially supported by the Spanish Research Agency, in the framework of the postdoctoral scholarship program Juan de la Cierva-Formación (FJCI-2017-32064).
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• dc.identifier.citation Arias-Badia B, Matamala A. Audio description meets easy-to-read and plain Language: results from a questionnaire and a focus group in Catalonia. Zeitschrift für Katalanistik. 2020;(33):251-70.
• dc.identifier.issn 0932-2221
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46138
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• dc.relation.ispartof Zeitschrift für Katalanistik. 2020;(33):251-70
• dc.rights © Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. CC-by-sa-3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Easy-to-understand language
• dc.subject.keyword Plain languageen
• dc.subject.keyword Easy-to-read languageen
• dc.subject.keyword Audio descriptionen
• dc.title Audio description meets Easy-to-Read and Plain Language: results from a questionnaire and a focus group in Cataloniaen
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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