Accessibility
Accessibility
Making a product accessible means working on it so that everybody can enjoy it. Depending on the needs of the target audience, a product can be made accessible in a variety of ways. Specifically, we work with audio descriptions and subtitling for the deaf/hard-of-hearing.
Who is the target audience? Blind people and people with visual impairment.
Where is it used? Any audiovisual and multimedia product.
What are its main features? It is a description of the key visual elements that help the audience gain a better understanding of the movie/AVT product and of what is happening on screen, e.g., places, movements, physical features of the characters, clothes and so on. These descriptions are placed into already-present pauses in a film/AVT product, hence respecting the audible dialogues.
What skills does it require?
- Ability to read and interpret movie scenes
- Ability to select and summarise relevant information
- Deep understanding of the needs and features of the target audience
- Knowledge of the movie projection context
- Knowledge of the narrating voice’s reading time della voce narrante
Who is the target audience? Individuals who are hard-of-hearing or deaf.
Where is it used? Any audiovisual product.
What are its main features? Al contrario dei sottotitoli standard, i sottotitoli per persone sorde prevedono l’utilizzo di simboli e colori per distinguere, ad esempio, i personaggi primari da quelli secondari o la provenienza della voce parlante; inoltre indicano non solo i dialoghi, ma anche altri rumori di scena importanti alla comprensione.
What skills does it require?
- Ability to use subtitling softwares
- Ability to summarise and to rework information
- Knowledge of standard subtitling techniques and guidelines and of the average reading time
- Knowledge of specific symbols and techniques used in subtitling for the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing
As for accessibility, we write Audio Description texts -which can include the actual recording of the audio description, and we create Subtitles for the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing -which can be combined to translation services. As for Audio Descrition, we personally follow the whole working processs.
We offer localization packages that include different services both for pre-production (such as translation of screenplays, summaries and so on...) and post-production (such as the creation of dialogue lists, translation, script adaptation for dubbing, standard subtitling and subtitling for the Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing.
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