Accessible Audio Cues (AAC) to aid the understanding of audiovisual narrative for neuro and cognitively diverse audiences
The fine-tuning of Accessible Audio Cues is an innovative Media Accessibility project revolving around the repurposing of Audio Description (AD) and Audio Narrative (AN) to overcome cognitive barriers in multimodal communication faced by neuro and cognitively diverse individuals. To reduce the cognitive load stemming from the presence of an additional verbal aural input – the AAC themselves – audio cues in Easy-to-Understand languages are used to reduce linguistic complexity while ensuring immersion when accessing audio-visual narrative.
AVT; Media Accessibility; Audio Description; Audio Introductions; Creative Media Accessibility; Easy Language; Conference Interpreting; Community Interpreting.
Under the supervision of Professor Elisa Perego (University of Trieste) and Professor Anna Matamala (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) she has collaborated with stakeholders in the realm of Media Accessibility and Social Inclusion to create content for the EU project EASIT (Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training). Andreea has focused on Unit 3, regarding the application of Easy to Understand (E2U) language in Audio Description to improve access for users with visual impairment.