Challenges and technological solutions to provide accessibility services in immersive media environments
Immersive Accessibility is a project aiming at exploring how accessibility services can be efficiently integrated with immersive media.
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EasyTV: Easing the access of Europeans with disabilities to converging media and content
One of the many challenges people with various degrees of sensory disabilities face is their difficulty to access mainstream products and services and therefore they are often excluded from enjoying audio-visual services.
Digital Accessibility for Young Adults in Europe: tools, training and participation
DA4You aims to contribute to meeting the need for digital accessibility training for young adults with varying abilities and disabilities across Europe, and to help them feel better equipped and more empowered to communicate with all audiences.
From easy-to-read texts to easy-to-understand audiovisual content: practice and training
EASIT aims to have an impact on the training of professionals who will guarantee a higher social inclusion at European level by providing content which is easy to read and easy to understand.
SPECIAL ISSUE – The Social Value of European Research on Media Accessibility
This special issue collects articles that present some projects on media accessibility and contextualise them within the broader context of the social changes we are facing.
fostering unity in diversity: the social value of european research on media accessibility
The strength of the European project lies in the aim of creating a community by embracing the diversity of its members. Unity in diversity means promoting the value of the vast human variety expressed by all its citizens.
New Subtitling Training for Real-time Media and Events
Real-time subtitlers, also called live captioners, produce transcripts of what speakers say in many contexts: cultural events, workplaces, parliamentary assemblies, broadcasts, educational, other.
Imagine a Social Network like FaceBook with no FaceBook
A tremendous variety of social networking sites have popped up in recent years and most gradually become irrelevant by failing to adjust to sophisticated user needs and expectations, essentially failing to recognize that our social needs vary over place or time.
Can accessible ICT tools foster migrant integration in European countries?
REBUILD project pursues the development of an accessible ICT tool able to efficiently cater for the communication needs of both local service providers and migrants during the first stages of the integration process.
Addressing the challenges of live subtitles for all
Internet, audiovisual media and digital technology are transforming our world. Their potential, however, will not be fully realised until they become fully accessible, enabling all citizens to participate in everyday life.
Arthur Healy: Building EFSA’s impact and reputation through scientific publishing
Arthur Healy heads up EFSA’s scientific publishing programme. He has worked in publishing for most of his career after studies in human nutrition and medicine at University College Cork. He has spearheaded the recent development of the EFSA Journal which has seen it blossom from a DIY publication on EFSA’s website to becoming one of the most accessed journals on Wiley Online Library since its launch there in mid-2016. EuroScientist caught up with him to better understand EFSA’s publishing programme.
Podcast: How open science could benefit from blockchain
Find out from four experts how blockchain technology is likely to change the way scientists work. Some focus on the impact of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies in the financing of research while others analyse the way blockchain can improve the quality of the research itself by increasing its reproducibility. Clearly, blockchain has so many potential applications that we are only just opening the door to its many potential disruptions in professional research circles.
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