Handbook of accessible communication

• Main Authors: Maaß, Christiane, Rink, Isabel
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Frank & Timme, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur 2024; Frank & Timme
• Edition: 1
• Series: Easy – Plain – Accessible
• Subjects: accessability; accessible administration; accessible graphic design; accessible web design; audio description; Barrierefreiheit; barrierfree communication; blind; communication barriers; Communication studies; Communication-Economic aspects; Communication-Political aspects; comprehensibility; deaf; Easy Language; Education; Educational strategies and policy; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion; Encyclopaedias and reference works; expert communication; Handbuch; hard-of-hearing; Human-Computer Interaction; Inclusion; intellectual disability; Interdisciplinary studies; Kommunikation; Kommunikationsbarriere; Language and Linguistics; Leichte Sprache; Linguistics; machine-based communication; Mass media-Economic aspects; Mass media-Political aspects; Plain Language; prelingual hearing disabilities; Reference works; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; SDH; sign language interpreting; Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication; Society and Social Sciences; speech-to-text interpreting; subtitling; translation; visually impaired; Zugangsvoraussetzung
• ISBN: 9783732908400; 3792991209; 9783792991206; 3732908402
• ISSN: 2699-1683
• DOI: 10.26530/20.500.12657/98181

Accessible communication comprises all measures employed to reduce communication barriers in various situations and fields of activity. Disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities and/or major life events can result in vastly different requirements in terms of how texts or messages must be prepared in order to meet the individual needs and access conditions of the recipients of accessible communication. This handbook examines and critically reflects accessible communication in its interdisciplinary breadth. Current findings, proposed solutions and research desiderata are juxtaposed with reports from practitioners and users, who provide insights into how they deal with accessible communication and highlight current and future requirements and problems.