The Making of Accessible Audiovisual Translation

ISBN-13: 9781800796775 / Angielski

Jorge Díaz Cintas; Carmen Pena-Díaz

Opis

Audiovisual translation (AVT) and accessibility studies have grown in recent years, and this book explores the intersection of these fields, which has interest both for academic research and professional practice. The chapters presented here analyse the production of accessible translated material adapted to all types of recipients.

Spis treści

Contents: - Support for Access to Audiovisual Media (SAAM): An Impactful Service- Learning Project - Building Audiences for Audio Description: A Case Study from the Krakow Film Music Festival - Analysing the Accessibility of TV News for Blind or Visually Impaired Audiences: Inclusive Scriptwriting as an Additional Tool for Media Production - Easy Audios for Easy Audiovisual Content: An Overview - Accessibility and Standards in Online Subtitling: From Quantity to Quality in Making Videos Accessible - Implementation of the Online Text Accessibility Heuristics - Cloud Studios and Scripts: Evolving Workspaces and Workflows in Dubbing.

O autorze

Carmen Pena-Díaz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Philology at Alcalá University, Madrid. Her research areas are bilingualism, translation and intercultural communication. She is a member of the research groups FITISPos-UAH in Spain, which researches training on Public Service Translation and Interpreting. She has led nationally accredited research projects - InterMed, on interlingual and intercultural mediation in health settings, and the European Erasmus+ DIALOGOS project, on intercultural communication in languages of lesser diffusion - and is the director of the European Public Service Intercultural Communication, Translating and Interpreting Master's Degree at Alcalá University. She has published numerous chapters and articles in international journals such as MonTI, Intercultural Education, Babel, Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, among others.