authors
- UTRAY DELGADO, FRANCISCO
- CASTRO ALVAREZ, MERCEDES DE
- MORENO LOPEZ, LOURDES
- RUIZ MEZCUA, MARIA BELEN
Monitoring Accessibility Services in Digital Television
Articles
Overview
published in
publication date
- February 2012
issue
- 2012
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 1687-7578
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1687-7586
abstract
- This paper addresses methodology and tools applied to the monitoring of accessibility services in digital television at a time when the principles of accessibility and design are being considered in all new audiovisual media communication services. The main objective of this research is to measure the quality and quantity of existing accessibility services offered by digital terrestrial television (DTT). The preliminary results, presented here, offer the development of a prototype for automatic monitoring and a methodology for obtaining quality measurements, along with the conclusions drawn by initial studies carried out in Spain. The recent approval of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities gives special relevance to this research because it provides valuable guidelines to help set the priorities to improve services currently available to users.