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List of illustrations xi
List of contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xxi

Introduction 1
Christopher Taylor and Elisa Perego

PART ONE
Accessibility and blindness 11

1. The question of accessibility 13
Gian Maria Greco

2. Access services for the blind and partially sighted: a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description 27
Joan Bestard-Bou and Blanca Arias-Badia

3. A profile of audio description end-users: linguistic needs and inclusivity 38
Elisa Perego and Christopher Taylor

PART TWO
A theoretical overview 55

4. A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes 57
Jana Holsanova

5. Narratology and/in audio description 78
Gert Vercauteren
6. Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description 93
Iwona Mazur

7. Audio description and culture-specific elements 107
Anna Jankowska

8. “Ut pictura poesis”: the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content 127
Loretta Secchi

PART THREE
Audio description sectors 143

9. Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice 145
Aline Remael and Nina Reviers

10. Opera and dance audio description 168
Joel Snyder and Esther Geiger

11. Audio description for the screen 183
Maria Joaquina Valero Gisbert

12. Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO 200
Christopher Taylor and Elisa Perego

13. Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective 215
Anna Fineman and Matthew Cock
14. Visitor studies: Interdisciplinary methods for understanding the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences 232
Rachel Hutchinson and Alison F. Eardley
15. Audio describing churches: in search of a template 246
Ralph Pacinotti
PART FOUR
Stakeholders 263
16. The audio description professional: a sociological overview and new training perspectives 265
Elisa Perego
17. Audio description: a public broadcaster’s core business and headache 280 Gunter Saerens, Tine Deboosere and Jan-Willem Van Hoof
18. Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot 295
Irene Hermosa-Ramirez
19. Research in audio description 312
Nazaret Fresno
PART FIVE
Innovation and technology 329
20. Audio description software tools 331
Vincenza Minutella
21. Receptor tools 353
Wojciech Figiel and Kamila Albin
22. Artificial voices 365
Agnieszka Walczak and Gonzalo Iturregui-Gallardo
23. Video games and audio description 377
Carme Mangiron and Xiaochun Zhang
24. Automating audio description 391
Sabine Braun and Kim Starr
25. Audio description personalisation 407
Pilar Orero
PART SIX
Practices 421
26. Audio introductions 423
Pablo Romero-Fresco
27. Audio subtitling 434
Anna Matamala
28. Audio description translation: a retrospective 447
Estella Oncins
29. Audio description translation: a pilot study in Chinese/Spanish 460
Yuchen Liu and Irene Tor-Carroggio
30. Audio description for the non-blind 476
Kim Starr
PART SEVEN
Training 495
31. University training 497
Agnieszka Chmiel
32. In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk 510
Bernd Benecke
PART EIGHT
National case studies 529
33. Audio description in the United States 531
Joel Snyder
34. Audio description in Canada 544
Rebecca Singh
35. Audio description in Australia 560
Karen Seeley
36. Audio description in Russia 579
Ivan Borshchevsky and Alexey Kozulyaev

37. Audio description in Brazil 596
Eliana Franco and Vera Lucia Santiago Araujo

38. Audio description in Slovenia 613
Mateja Vodeb and Veronika Rot
Glossary of Terms 634
Index 638