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Lezioni private 1975 subtitle5/29/2023 ![]() Disability holds a human element in regards to a medical condition, associated with social and financial backgrounds that cannot be measured or simplified by one single definition or theoretical model (Albrecht et al. ![]() Keywords: media accessibility, capabilities, models of disability, audio descriptionĭefining disability is a daunting task given its connotations when applied to human conditions: physical, cognitive and social. The article finishes by illustrating how this approach can be applied when profiling users in media accessibility questionnaires. Our suggestion is based on Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach, which has not yet been applied to user profiling in media accessibility studies. This new approach gives a response to the International Telecommunication Union’s suggestion of leaving the biomedical approaches behind. The final part of the article will propose a new approach in the study of end users in experimental research in Translation Studies, Audiovisual Translation, and Media Accessibility. The objective is to understand the approach taken by researchers. The second part of the article examines end user profiling in articles, European funded projects and PhD thesis’ related to one of the media accessibility modalities: audio description. This paper begins with a revision of some of the most common models to define disability. Defining disability is not an easy task due to its multidimensionality.
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