Researching Audio Description: New Approaches

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.