The Audio Describer Training in Spain: Current situation and future challenges

Abstract

This study aims to describe the current panorama of accessibility training in Spain. In addition to the postgraduate university courses on audio description and subtitling for the deaf that have been offered up to now, there is also the specialization course in accessibility recently approved by Royal Decree 94/2019. Once the training programmes have been analyzed, we describe the competences that the students are expected to acquire according to the classification of competences that the «accessibilitator» must acquire (Díaz Cintas, 2007a). The results indicate that accessibility is present in many postgraduate courses, although it is approached in a very heterogeneous way. Nevertheless, there is a certain consensus regarding the competencies required for the future accessibility expert.