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Title:
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ACCESSIBLE MOVIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE |
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Author(s):
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Filipe Mendes, Ines Kouh and Matja Debevc |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-64-7 |
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Editors:
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Katherine Blashki |
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Year:
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2017 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Accessibility, Movie, Disability, Technology, Inclusion |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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251 |
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Last Page:
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254 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Throughout the years disabled people have been facing barriers when watching movies in theaters or at home due to the lack of tools providing sufficient level of accessibility. Accordingly, when it comes to improving accessibility of movies for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, as well as for the blind and the visually-impaired, there has been an important debate on which technological solutions are to be the most appropriate. Solutions, such as audio descriptions and captions, are widely adopted but they represent a higher cost that very few movie theaters want to support. In a different context, sign language interpreter videos are also an alternative, although it has not become widely adopted. Moreover, many websites contain video players with keyboard traps that may ruin the user experience. Nevertheless, recent advances in technology are now enabling the automatic generation of captions for movies as well as the price decrease in hardware parts. Plus, with the adoption of smartphones and mobile applications, new alternatives are appearing at a fraction of the cost (if any) to the consumer. In this paper, we present a broad overview of the topic, its status, and forecast to the future. |
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