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    This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of Audio Description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and Audio Description professionals within translation studies and media accessibility.

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    The American Council of the Blind (ACB) Recipient of the 2022 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Audio Description Achievement Award for Research and Development


    This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of audio description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product such as a film, painting, or live performance in the spoken mode, for the benefit principally of the blind and visually impaired community. This volume brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners and service providers, such as broadcasters from all over the world, to cover as thoroughly as possible all the theoretical and practical aspects of this discipline.


    In 38 chapters, the expert authors chart how the discipline has become established both as an important professional service and as a valid academic subject, how it has evolved and how it has come to play such an important role in media accessibility. From the early history of the subject through to the challenges represented by ever-changing technology, the Handbook covers the approaches and methodologies adopted to analyse the “multimodal” text in the constant search for the optimum selection of the elements to describe.


    This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and audio description professionals within the more general spheres of translation studies and media accessibility.



    "Spanning the breadth of audio-descriptive applications, this rich compendium shows that AD has finally come of age and is no longer the Cinderella of AVT. This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in accessibility, particularly researchers in AVT."


    Dr Louise Fryer, audio describer and independent researcher

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations


    List of Contributors


    Acknowledgements


    Introduction





    1. The question of accessibility



    2. Access services for the blind and partially sighted: a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description



    3. A profile of audio description end-users: linguistic needs and inclusivity



    4. A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes



    5. Narratology and/in audio description




    6. Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description




    7. Audio description and culture specific elements




    8. "Ut pictura poesis": the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content




    9. Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice




    10. Opera and dance audio description




    11. Audio description for the screen




    12. Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO




    13. Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective




    14. Visitor studies: the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences




    15. Audio describing churches: in search of a template




    16. The audio description professional: a sociological overview and new training perspectives




    17. Audio description: a public broadcaster’s core business and headache




    18. Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot




    19. Research in audio description




    20. Audio Description Software




    21. Receptor Tools




    22. Artificial Voices




    23. Video games and audio description




    24. Automating audio description




    25. Audio description personalisation




    26. Audio introductions




    27. Audio subtitling




    28. Audio description translation: a retrospective




    29. Audio description translation: a pilot study Chinese/Spanish




    30. Audio description for the non-blind




    31. University training




    32. In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk




    33. Audio description in the United States




    34. Audio description in Canada




    35. Audio description in Australia




    36. Audio description in Russia




    37. Audio description in Brazil




    38. Audio description in Slovenia



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