The Observatory

The aim of GALMA is to promote research, training and knowledge transfer in the area of media accessibility for the benefit of people who, for different reasons, cannot have access to original audiovisual media. The work carried out within GALMA is aligned with a wide notion of media accessibility that concerns people with disabilities, cognitive impairments and learning or age-related difficulties, but also users without disabilities who may need linguistic access to audiovisual content produced in a foreign language.

Researchers working at GALMA are thus concerned with a wide range of topics regarding different audiovisual translation modalities (subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, audiodescription for the blind and partially sighted, dubbing, media interpreting, etc) and special attention is paid to two issues: quality in media accessibility and the integration of media accessibility as part of the audiovisual production process.