This text offers an analysis of the communicative aspects used in the processes of transmitting visual information to blind and partially sighted people through the use of media. The intention is to reflect on what and how to describe the significant information, conveyed through images, in order to improve accessibility to university lectures that make use of multimedia supports (videos, PowerPoint etc.) for minority groups. The work is part of a research project at the University of Ferrara, carried out in partnership between the Department of rights to study and disability services for students (S.M.S. Service) and the Department of Humanities (CARIDlab, Workshop in Science and Technology of cognitive processes and learning), which envisages the implementation of two video lectures, one in the humanistic field, and the other in the medical field1. The final aim of this text is therefore to provide describers with a series of guidelines, identified through the study of reference literature, functional to the application of (visual) content adaptation processes to university lectures for blind and partially sighted students.
Planning tools as an aid for multimedia didactics for university students with visual impairments: the communicative aspects.
GANINO, Giovanni
2013
Abstract
This text offers an analysis of the communicative aspects used in the processes of transmitting visual information to blind and partially sighted people through the use of media. The intention is to reflect on what and how to describe the significant information, conveyed through images, in order to improve accessibility to university lectures that make use of multimedia supports (videos, PowerPoint etc.) for minority groups. The work is part of a research project at the University of Ferrara, carried out in partnership between the Department of rights to study and disability services for students (S.M.S. Service) and the Department of Humanities (CARIDlab, Workshop in Science and Technology of cognitive processes and learning), which envisages the implementation of two video lectures, one in the humanistic field, and the other in the medical field1. The final aim of this text is therefore to provide describers with a series of guidelines, identified through the study of reference literature, functional to the application of (visual) content adaptation processes to university lectures for blind and partially sighted students.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
