Media accessibility

Aline Remael
Artesis University College
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Generally speaking, the concept of accessibility refers to the degree to which a product, service, environment, concept or even person can be used, reached, understood or accessed for a specific purpose. It also implies that the accessible product has been manipulated in some way in order to appreciate it or make it “accessible”. This is the sense in which the adjective is used, for instance, in the entry on Children's literature and translation in this handbook: “The text may be simplified in order to become more accessible […].”(my emphasis). Obviously, translation itself is a form of accessibility: it provides access to texts in a foreign language, and by extension, the culture that has generated them.

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