Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers

Media Accessibility research - "concerning access to media and non-media objects, services and environments through media solutions, for any person who cannot or would not be able to [...] access them in their original form" (Greco, 2019, p. 18) - has thus far focused mostly on asp...

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Autores: Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene, Arias Badia, Blanca
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Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Palabra clave:Media accessibility
Higher education
Disabled people organisation
Working conditions
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spelling Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providersHermosa-Ramírez, IreneArias Badia, BlancaMedia accessibilityHigher educationDisabled people organisationWorking conditionsMedia Accessibility research - "concerning access to media and non-media objects, services and environments through media solutions, for any person who cannot or would not be able to [...] access them in their original form" (Greco, 2019, p. 18) - has thus far focused mostly on aspects related to cultural life. However, access services such as subtitles, sign language interpreting and web accessibility are also deployed in higher education, a context where people with sensory disabilities are still underrepresented. The present article aims to assess accessibility needs and current barriers in the context of higher education in Spain. To gain a better understanding of access provision in universities and following a user-centred approach, the article reports on the results of semi-structured interviews with five disabled people organisations and two accessibility professionals. The thematic analysis of the interviews reveals several areas of concern: a generalised need for accessibility literacy, both required at a societal level and at an individual level (especially on the part of university staff), a prevalence of invisible work among students with disabilities who have to take extra steps to have their accessibility needs met, and the improvable working conditions of accessibility professionals providing services in the context of higher education.This paper is part of the UnivAc project (ref. TED2021-130926A-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry Science and Innovation and the Spanish Research Agency/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union 'NextGenerationEU'/PRTR. The authors are members of TRADILEX, a research group recognised by the Catalan Government (2021SGR00952). Irene Hermosa-Ramírez's participation in this research has been financially supported by the Spanish State Research Agency, in the framework of the postdoctoral scholarship program Juan de la Cierva (JDC2022-049546-I). Academic & Scientific Publishers (ASP)2026202620242026info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10230/73401http://dx.doi.org/10.52034/lans-tts.v23i.783reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésLinguistica Antverpiensia, New Series: Themes in Translation Studies. 2024;23:93-115info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/TED2021-130926A-I00This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:rdupf_______::cca116afff79217b59aab6e8ba1085662026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
title Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
spellingShingle Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene
Media accessibility
Higher education
Disabled people organisation
Working conditions
title_short Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
title_full Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
title_fullStr Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
title_full_unstemmed Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
title_sort Accessibility as a means to realising social justice in higher education: interviews with user organisations and service-providers
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene
Arias Badia, Blanca
author Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene
author_facet Hermosa-Ramírez, Irene
Arias Badia, Blanca
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Media accessibility
Higher education
Disabled people organisation
Working conditions
topic Media accessibility
Higher education
Disabled people organisation
Working conditions
description Media Accessibility research - "concerning access to media and non-media objects, services and environments through media solutions, for any person who cannot or would not be able to [...] access them in their original form" (Greco, 2019, p. 18) - has thus far focused mostly on aspects related to cultural life. However, access services such as subtitles, sign language interpreting and web accessibility are also deployed in higher education, a context where people with sensory disabilities are still underrepresented. The present article aims to assess accessibility needs and current barriers in the context of higher education in Spain. To gain a better understanding of access provision in universities and following a user-centred approach, the article reports on the results of semi-structured interviews with five disabled people organisations and two accessibility professionals. The thematic analysis of the interviews reveals several areas of concern: a generalised need for accessibility literacy, both required at a societal level and at an individual level (especially on the part of university staff), a prevalence of invisible work among students with disabilities who have to take extra steps to have their accessibility needs met, and the improvable working conditions of accessibility professionals providing services in the context of higher education.
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