What's accessibility?
What's accessibility?
Imagine watching your favorite movie,
suddenly the pictures get blurrier and blurrier until complete darkness comes.
Sounds are amplified,
hearing and imagination will be your only companions in this adventure.
Slowly sight returns,
but this time it will be hearing, your faithful guide until now,
to fade until silence takes over.
Now, only images will give you the idea of what is going on in the film.
In both of these extreme situations, what the viewer will wonder is:
"What’s going on? I’m missing important information, I’m confused".
It will be up to the audio describer in the first case
and to the subtitler in the second
to integrate these shortcomings
through what we like to call "sixth sense", the sensibility of inclusion.