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The accessible museum: towards an understanding of international museum audio description practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction: Audio description (AD) in museums is crucial for making them accessible for people with visual impairments. Nevertheless, there are limited museum-specific AD guidelines currently available.
Eardley, A.F.   +3 more
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Creative description: The impact of audio description style on presence in visually impaired audiences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article presents a study that tested the impact of audio description (AD) style on dimensions of presence (spatial presence, ecological validity, engagement, and negative effects) in blind and visually impaired audiences. The participants were shown
Fryer, L, Walczak, A
core   +1 more source

Film language, film emotions and the experience of blind and partially sighted viewers: a reception study

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2020
Film experience is a sensual, cognitive and emotional encounter between film and spectator. For viewers with blindness or visual impairment, access to film experience is made possible through audio description (AD).
Floriane Bardini
doaj   +1 more source

Movie Description [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Audio Description (AD) provides linguistic descriptions of movies and allows visually impaired people to follow a movie along with their peers. Such descriptions are by design mainly visual and thus naturally form an interesting data source for computer ...
Courville, Aaron   +7 more
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Evaluation criteria and film narrative. A frame to teaching relevance in audio description [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The filmic product undergoes a process of deconstruction and selection by the describer, who must decide which particular elements of the characters, costumes, set and action are to remain.
Marzà, Anna
core   +1 more source

Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Audio Description and Audio Subtitling in Multilingual TV Shows

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Multilingualism in audiovisual productions has substantially increased in recent years as a reflection of today’s globalised world. While the number of publications looking at the phenomenon from the perspective of audiovisual translation (AVT ...
Micòl Beseghi
doaj   +1 more source

Audio Description Made to Measure: Reflections on Interpretation in AD Based on the Pear Tree Project Data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The issue of interpretation in audio description continues to divide both AD practitioners and researchers. In this contribution we look at interpretation from the point of view of narratological behaviour of sighted viewers. To this end, we analyse data from twelve languages collected in the Pear Tree Project – a research project in which sighted ...
Mazur, Iwona, Chmiel, Agnieszka
openaire   +2 more sources

On the perception of audio description : developing a model to compare films and their audio described versions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Audio description (AD), the transfer of visual information into spoken language, has enjoyed little empirical research attention (cf. Galiano/Portalier 2010).
Bale, Richard James   +2 more
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Rhymed and traditional audio description according to the blind and partially sighted audience: Results of a pilot study on creative audio description

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2018
The study described in this article is based on rhymed and traditional AD prepared for the animated film Boundin’ (Pixar, 2003). The cartoon with two kinds of AD was presented to blind audiences, both children and adults.
Monika Zabrocka
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Audio description services in Europe: an update

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2016
Audio Description for the blind and visually impaired (AD) is an access service that is rapidly gaining ground in Europe, in the industry as well as in research circles.
Nina Reviers
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