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Since the 1990s we witness a rise in public apologies. Are we living in the 'Age of Apology'? Interesting research questions can be raised about the opportunity, the form, the meaning, the effectiveness and the ethical implications of public apologies. Are they not merely a clever and easy device to escape real and tangible responsibility for mistakes or wrong done? Are they not at risk to become well-rehearsed rituals that claim to express regret but, in fact, avoid doing so? In a joint interdisciplinary effort, the contributors to this book, combining findings from their specific fields of r

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Media for all: a Global Challenge -- Sampling subtitling for the deaf and the hard-of-hearing in Europe /Aline Remael -- Access symbols for use with video content and information and communications technology devices /Clive Miller -- Deaf access for Deaf people: the translation of the television news from English into British Sign Language /Christopher Stone -- A world of change in a changing world /Josélia Neves -- Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing in Brazil /Vera Lúcia Santiago Araújo -- Sampling audio description in Europe /Pilar Orero -- Accessibility: raising awareness of audio description in the UK /Joan Greening and Deborah Rolph -- Towards a European guideline for audio description /Gert Vercauteren -- A corpus-based analysis of audio description /Andrew Salway -- From the visual to the verbal in two languages: a contrastive analysis of the audio description of The Hours in English and Spanish /Julian Bourne and Catalina Jiménez Hurtado -- Intersensorial translation: visual art made up by words /Karin De Coster and Volkmar Mühleis -- Accessible opera in Catalan: opera for all /Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero -- Verdi made visible: audio introduction for opera and ballet /Greg York -- Audio description in the Chinese world /Jessica Yeung -- Notes on contributors -- Index.