Table of Contents:
  • The question of accessibility / Gian Maria Greco
  • Access services for the blind and partially sighted : a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description / Joan Bastard-Bou and Blanca Arias-Badia
  • A profile of audio description end-users : linguistic needs and inclusivity / Elisa Perego and Christopher Taylor
  • A cognitive approach to audio description : production and reception processes / Jana Holsanova
  • Narratology and/in audio description / Gert Vercauteren
  • Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description / Iwona Mazur
  • Audio description and culture specific elements / Anna Jankowska
  • "Ut pictura poesis" : the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content / Loretta Secchi
  • Audio description for the theatre : a research-based practice / Aline Remael and Nina Reviers
  • Opera and dance audio description / Joel Snyder and Esther Geiger
  • Audio description for the screen / Maria Joaquina Valero Gisbert
  • Museum audio description : the role of ADLAB PRO / Christopher Taylor and Elisa Perego
  • Audio description in museums : a service provider perspective / Anna Fineman and Matthew Cock
  • Visitor studies : the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences / Rachel Hutchinson and Alison Eardley
  • Audio describing churches : in search of a template / Ralph Pacinotti
  • The audio description professional : a sociological overview and new training perspectives / Elisa Perego
  • Audio description : a public broadcaster's core business and headache / Gunter Saerens, Tine Deboosere and Jan-Willem Van Hoof
  • Profiling audio description service providers : a questionnaire-based snapshot / Irene Hermosa-Ramirez
  • Research in audio description / Nazaret Fresno
  • Audio description software / Vincenza Minutella
  • Receptor tools / Wojciech Figiel and Kamila Albin
  • Artificial voices / Agnieszka Walczak and Gonzalo Iturregui Gallardo
  • Video games and audio description / Carme Mangiron and Xiaochun Zhang
  • Automating audio description / Sabine Braun and Kim Starr
  • Audio description personalisation / Pilar Orero
  • Audio introductions / Pablo Romero-Fresco
  • Audio subtitling / Anna Matamala
  • Audio description translation : a retrospective / Estella Oncins
  • Audio description translation : a pilot study Chinese/Spanish / Yuchen Liu and Irene Tor-Carroggio
  • Audio description for the non-blind / Kim Starr
  • University training / Agnieszka Chmiel
  • In-house training : the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk / Bernd Benecke
  • Audio description in the United States / Joel Snyder
  • Audio description in Canada / Rebecca Singh
  • Audio description in Australia / Kari Seeley
  • Audio description in Russia / Ivan Borschevsky and Alexey Kozulyaev
  • Audio description in Brazil / Eliana Franco and Vera Lucia Santiago Araujo
  • Audio description in Slovenia / Mateja Vodeb and Veronika Rot.