MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY PLATFORM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE.\u00a0MAPPING MEDIA ACCESSIBILITY IN EUROPE AND BEYOND<\/p>\n
(Vigo, Spain, 5-6 October 2017)<\/p>\n
\nInternet and audiovisual media are transforming our world, but their potential cannot be realised until they become fully accessible and enable the participation of all citizens in everyday life. For this reason, media accessibility has become an essential driver of social inclusion and integration and has lately received recognition in the literature, in EU-funded research projects and in European legislation, such as the European Accessibility Act and the review of the AVMSD Directive.<\/p>\n
Partly funded by the EU Commission (COMM\/MAD\/2015\/01), the first Media Accessibility Platform International Conference aims to promote awareness and foster debate on the present and especially the future of media accessibility as a pivotal instrument for the social and cultural inclusion of all human beings, especially those with specific needs, such as deaf and blind users, persons with cognitive disabilities, foreign audiences, children, and the elderly in Europe and beyond. The conference will also serve as the official presentation of MAP (Media Accessibility Platform), the first digital cloud-based platform covering all matters related to research, training, professional practice and legislation regarding audiovisual translation and media accessibility around the world. It will also help to create the first multi-stakeholder platform to coordinate work on media accessibility done at an international level.<\/p>\n
The conference aims to provide a platform for discussion that welcomes contributions on some of the following topics regarding media accessibility and audiovisual translation:<\/p>\n
Legislation
\nGuidelines and standards
\nQuality
\nTechnology
\nEU-funded projects
\nDescriptive and corpus-based studies
\nReception studies
\nNew approaches
\nTraining
\nProfessional practice
\nUser perspectives<\/p>\n
The conference will also feature guest presentations by some of the leading stakeholders in media accessibility at a European level including:<\/p>\n
Inmaculada Placencia Porrero (Directorate General for Justice, European Commission)
\nAlejandro Moledo (European Disability Forum)
\nJacques Lovell (European Broadcasting Union)
\nGregoire Polad (Association of Commercial Television in Europe)
\nJoanna Wrona (European Commission Directorate General)
\nGion Linder (European Broadcasting Union, SWISSTxt)
\nDavid Wood (United Nations, ITU-IRG AVA)<\/p>\n
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