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The project is a four-year interdisciplinary collaboration project on audio description and accessible information funded by Lund university. The theoretical aim of the project is to gain a greater understanding of how informative messages in the form of images, films and videos are made accessible for a blind and visually impaired audience. Understanding how informative messages are received will help gain insight into how these messages can be constructed in order for blind and visually impaired audiences to have access to the same important informative content. The research aim is also linked to the EU-directive and Swedish DOS-act about accessible video. The project gathers both researchers and people from our collaborative initiative (MTM, SPSM, SRF, Syntolksutbildning Region Örebro län) as well as partners from the business sector.

The research project has three sub-goals:

1. Interdisciplinary research on how sighted and blind people process information from information films and how blind people understand and experience audio description (AD) of visual scenes in information films.

2. Development and testing of research-based guidelines for the language- and genre-specific AD of information films.

3. Development and testing of a digital tool that supports AD of information films.