Accesibilidad audiovisual en la web. Subtitulación en el Parlamento Europeo

This study highlights the importance of accessibility in our current information society, particularly on the Internet. Therefore, we will analyse compliance with the requirements for accessibility to audiovisual content, established by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, on the online television channel EuroparlTV. Furthermore, we will trace the inherent link between web and audiovisual accessibility and describe the subtitles generated by translation professionals in the institutional sphere – in this case, at the European Parliament. To achieve our objective and conduct a systematic and exhaustive study of different aspects of subtitling, we have created and analysed the EMPAC Corpus (EuroparlTV Multimedia Parallel Corpus), which collates the English and Spanish subtitles of the videos broadcast on EuroparlTV between 2009 and 2017.