Anna Jankowska

Open Art: Designing Accessible Content in a Multimedia Guide App for Visitors with and without Sensory Impairments

Szarkowska, Jankowska, Krejtz and Kowalski present an innovative approach towards creating accessible content following the example of a multimedia app created in the Open Art project, carried out by a consortium of partners including museums, universities, a research institute and a media access foundation. The goal of the project is to create a multimedia application guide containing accessible descriptions of selected works of Polish modern and contemporary art from the participating museums, in accordance with the principles of Universal Design. The chapter presents the concept of the app, focusing on the results of user-centred needs analysis and reception studies regarding the features of the optimum description of works of art in museums.

How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study

The description of co-speech gestures is an under-researched area of audio description. This chapter draws attention to the concept of audio description strategies. As well as looking at the ways in which co-speech gestures are described in audio description, Jankowska and Zabrocka explore the methodological implications of including gesture types into analysis of gesture description. This chapter concludes with the results of a case study in the form of qualitative and quantitative analysis of a corpus of six professionally audio described films.