Second workshop on disability-related terminology

1. Second workshop on disability-related terminology By Margarita Serrano (STS)

2. Audio description • Descriptive narration of key visual elements in a video or film • For blind persons • Narrators describe actions, gestures, scene changes, and other visual information. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7j4_aP8dWA

3. Assistive technology / adaptive technology Examples: • “[States Parties undertake:] g) To provide accessible information to persons with disabilities about mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies” (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, art. 4, para 1 (h)) • “Please provide information on the measures taken to ensure that: a) All persons with disabilities (...) have access (...) to affordable, accessible, quality and culturally sensitive health services, including assistive and adaptive technology in private and public settings” (CRPD/C/AUS/QPR/2-3; para. 27 (a))

4. Assistive technology / adaptive technology • Adaptive technology refers to special versions of already existing technologies or tools, usually used by persons with disabilities. • Assistive technology is a broader term encompassing any light-, mid-, or high-tech tool or device that helps persons with disabilities perform a task with greater ease and independence. • Adaptive technology is a type of assistive technology where existing tools are adapted for use by individuals with disabilities.

5. Assistive technology / adaptive technology Some technologies are purely assistive but many are both adaptive and assistive AssistiveAdaptive

6. Assistive technology / adaptive technology

7. Plain language A way of presenting information that helps someone understand it the first time they read or hear it. When you use plain language, you: • use clear, concise and accurate language, • order your points logically, • write short sentences, etc.

8. Plain language Example Before If there are any points on which you require explanation or further particulars we shall be glad to furnish such additional details as may be required by telephone. After If you have any questions, please phone.

9. Plain language

10. Easy Read Meet Mr. Robert Martin, member of the CRPD Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcxpCQMkzQ

11. Easy Read Easy Read is a format that makes information more accessible to persons with learning or intellectual disabilities and other audiences. This methodology includes, for example, simple words, images and definitions.

12. Easy Read The CRPD prefers “Easy Read” to “easy-to-read” but Producing Easy Read information ≠ Making informationeasy to read and understand

13. Easy Read Easy Read example

14. Easy Read ARABIC For guidelines in Arabic, see: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Guidelines for Easy-to-Read Materials (https://www.ifla.org/publications/guidelines-for-easy-to-read-materials)

15. Easy Read FRENCH “Facile à lire” ou “FALC” (Facile à lire et à comprendre) See: http://com-access.fr/wp-content/uploads/FALC/livre-blanc-e-falc_accessible.pdf

16. Easy Read FRENCH http://facile-a-lire.iledefrance.fr/articles/2017/02/la-region-lutte-contre-la-pollution-de-l-air

17. Easy Read RUSSIAN Source: https://perspektiva-inva.ru/en/digests/3883-2017-10-26-15-37-42 Checkalsothisterm: Скачать "легко читается" версию на русском языке  (https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/01/russia-children-disabilities-face-discrimination)

18. Easy Read SPANISH

19. Easy Read Original document into Easy Read “adaptation” BUT Easy Read document into another language “translation”

20. Plain language vs Easy Read Common features • Logical sequence • Short sentences and paragraphs • Useful headings and short sections • Concrete and familiar words • No legal, foreigner or technical jargon • Active voice • Clear layout and design • Lists and examples included • Different levels of adaptation possible Writing designed to ensure the reader understands as quickly, easily, and completely as possible Writing and formatting designed to make information accessible for persons with intellectual disabilities Easy read specificities • Audience: typically, persons with intellectual and other disabilities • Less text and more white space than plain language • No formula, tables, or graphs allowed BUT illustrations frequently used • Clear definitions of difficult words in same page or at the beginning of the document • Layout and design play a key role • Validated by representatives of the target group working with a facilitator Plain language specificities • Audience: initially persons with low reading skills, now extending to other target groups • User-friendly formulas, simple tables and graphs allowed • Difficult words explained or glossary included at the end of the document • Validation: 1 person from the target group or a proofreader considered enough

21. In our documents Report of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on its nineteenth session (14 February-9 March 2018) (CRPD/C/19/2)

22. THANK YOU!