There are many international standardisation agencies working actively on producing technical requirements towards accessibility, both for physical environments and media. Technology is developing at a fast pace to produce new interactions, which turn into communication barriers: some avoidable. Taking consideration accessibility standards from the design requirement definition --the concept of...

INTRODUCTION Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a rare but tragic part of professional and amateur sport. Following multiple high profile deaths in professional sport over the past two decades, there has been a significant trend towards the widespread availability of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at amateur sports grounds. OBJECTIVES To examine the availability of AEDs in amateur sport...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be subtitled to help hearing impaired and elderly people to watch TV. NHK has researched automatic speech recognition for subtitling live TV programs in real time efficiently. Our speech recognition system learns frequent words and expressions expected in the program beforehand and also learns characteristics of announcers’ voices in order to reduce...

By analysing European cultural policies and paradigmatic case studies, this article highlights the close link between normalisation of minority languages ​​in Europe film subtitling. Film subtitling is an activity that urgently needs to be protocolised insofar as it guarantees both preservation originality audiovisual work its value tangible intangible heritage. To do so, we will analyse legal ...

According to Hirst (2011) Journalism must change to survive in response to Web 2.0, however in “The Cult Of The Amateur” Keen (2007) argues that Web 2.0 (social media) is f***** (Ha, 2009), as it undermines and decimates the ranks of our professional literary ‘gatekeepers’. In response this paper explores the impact of social media upon Journalism education from two perspectives: both from the ...