Researching Audio Description

Anna Matamala is a lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interests are audiovisual translation and media accessibility, and she has published extensively in these topics and has participated in many funded projects such as DTV4ALL or HBB4ALL. She is a member of TransMedia research group.Pilar Orero is a lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research interests are audiovisual translation and media accessibility, and she has published extensively in these topics and has participated in many funded projects such as DTV4ALL and ADLAB. She leads HBB4ALL. She is a member of TransMedia research group.

• 1. Audio Description and Accessibility Studies: Work in Progress.- PART I: RE-THINKING ACCESSIBILITY.- 2. On Accessibility as a Human Right, with an Application to Media Accessibility.- 3. Impairment and Disability – Challenging Concepts of ‘Normality’.- PART II: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: RESEARCHING AUDIO DESCRIPTION.- 4. Cognitive Approach to Audio Description.- 5. Game Accessibility for the Blind: Current Overview and the Potential Application of Audio Description as the Way Forward.- 6. Should Audio Description Reflect the Way Sighted Viewers Look at Films? Combining Eye-Tracking and Reception Study Data.- 7. Audio Description Washes Brighter? A Study in Brand Names and Advertising.- 8. What Should I Say? Tentative Criteria to Prioritize Information in the Audio Description of Film Characters.- 9. How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study.- 10. Foreign Language Class with Audio Description: A Case Study.- 11. An Overview of Audio Description in Thai Television.- PART III: AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECTS.- 12. The ADLAB project.- 13. From DTV4LL to HBB4ALL: Accessibility in European Broadcasting.- 14. The ALST Project: Technologies for Audio Description.- 15. Audio Description of Press Illustrations for Young Readers by Young Volunteers.- 16. Open Art – Designing Accessible Content in a Multimedia Guide App for Visitors With and Without Sensory Impairments.

"Researching Audio Description: New Approaches is an introduction to state of the art research in Audio Description that is a must read for anyone doing research in or embarking on research in AD and media accessibility. It offers a panoramic picture of a multi-faceted field, its concepts, research methods and current applications as well as a solid basis for further research." - Aline Remael, University of Antwerp, Belgium