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In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, accessibility in media has emerged as a crucial frontier for inclusion, equality, and knowledge democracy.
The present edited volume "Transforming Media Accessibility in Europe: Digital Media, Education and City Space Accessibility Contexts" is a comprehensive exploration of technological, societal, psychological, and legal aspects of media accessibility in Europe. It offers a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the multifaceted landscape of media accessibility. Through compelling experimental studies, case studies, and forward-looking insights, it elucidates the transformative potential of accessible media across diverse sectors, including education, culture, and smart cities.
Crafted as a collaborative effort under the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) LEAD-ME Action (CA19142), this book unites the expertise of researchers, educators, and practitioners. This is an open access publication.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part 1: Outside the screen.- Accessibility in tourism 5.0 approach: Enabling inclusive and meaningful tourist experiences.- Accessibility in public transport by example of Warsaw.- Subjectivity and creativity vs. audio description guidelines.- Gaze-Led Audio Description (glad). Concept and application to accessibility of architectural heritage.- Establishing an accessible university for students with disabilities: Case study of The Aksaray University.- Part 2: Inclusive art and society.- Digital constitutionalism and the data economy.- Making copyright management agile: Challenges and opportunities in audiovisual translation and media accessibility for a new digital era.- The inclusivity of art in city space. Activities of researchers from the University of Lodz to support people with sensory disabilities: A case study from Lodz (Poland).- Contemporary art and audio accessibility from translation studies- an essential binomial in current artistic creations.- Part 3: Learning and education.- An overview of media accessibility and inclusivity in the educational domain.- Media accessibility in education- combining bibliometric study and literature review.- Media accessibility in e-learning: Analyzing learning management systems.- Accessibility of ebooks for secondary school students in Ireland and Cyprus.- Examining the accessibility of online educational content - A case study of second-language learning videos.- Accessibility in technology-enhanced curricula - A comparative study in Portugal, Turkey, and Lithuania.- Cognitive accessibility in educational games - A set of recommendations.- Enabling digital literacy pedagogical sessions: A case study from Portugal.- Exploring the potential of media accessibility as a pedagogical tool: Students as audio describers.- Assessing the impact of assistive technologies on the lives of the hearing impaired: A bibliometric analysis.- Part 4: Technological innovations for accessibility.- Academic training in media accessibility in audiovisual translation at a university level: The case of the Spanish university system.- Digital media tools for accessibility and inclusion: A case study from the Ukraine.- A multimodal approach for improving a dialogue agent for therapeutic sessions in psychiatry.- Control the stream of sounds: A pilot study on intersemiotic translation of sound effects and music for subtitling for the d/deaf and hard of hearing in German, Spanish and English in VOD platforms.
