Accessibility has taken giant leaps forward in recent years, from technology to video games, live entertainment, and media. Closed captioning has transformed our expectations of content; turning us into more active consumers, increasing our acceptance of reading more text – or none at all.
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Calum Davidson is product manager in the access services department at Red Bee Media, which provides signing, audio description, and closed captioning services for many UK major broadcasters. Davidson’s team is working with automated speech recognition technology to increase real-time subtitling on live broadcasts.
Olivia Durkin is a training and theatre programme manager at Stagetext, a charity which supports arts organisations and venues of all sizes to make their work accessible to the 12 million deaf, deafened, and hard-of-hearing people in the UK through the provision of captions, live subtitles, and digital subtitles.
Dr. Gwyneth Peaty is a research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology in The School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Dr. Peaty teaches a MOOC on disability and digital media,
Alex King is a journalist and former staff writer at Huck, a youth culture magazine and website in London. Now based in Athens, he writes about creative subcultures, human rights and activism around the world.
