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1. Why is it important to offer easy-to-understand audio descriptions (or audio introductions, or audio subtitles)?

ecause people who are visually impaired prefer simple language to standard language

Because it must be offered by law

Because not all users understand standard language

Because children should be offered simpler products

2. What does the expression “semantic richness” refer to?

To the fact that audio descriptions are often rich in meaningful words

To the fact that some words include several nuances of meaning

To the fact that the same word can have multiple meanings

To the fact that some words have a very clear meaning

3. Why can screen and art audio descriptions be difficult to understand?

Because they use vivid and therefore low-frequency and semantically rich vocabulary

Because they are usually prepared by describers with a literary background

Because they follow guidelines that suggest to write poetic texts to be more visually effective

Because they can be very informative and convey much information in a few words

4. What is listenability?

A feature of all audible texts that are designed to be listened to

A feature of audible texts that ensures pleasure and ease in listening to them

The particularly slow pace of a text that is conveyed orally

A measure of how clean the audio track is

5. What can contribute to creating a listenable audio description (or audio introduction, or audio subtitles)?

A text-to-speech software

An oral-based language style

Using signpost language

Structuring the text coherently

6. What can contribute to creating an easy-to-understand audio description (or audio introductions, or audio subtitles)? 

Eliminating interfering sounds from the soundtrack, even resorting to sound engineering

Using short sentences and pauses between them

Avoiding subordination

Taking audience-centred perspective

7. How can audio subtitles be made easy-to-understand? 

By using subtitles for the hard of hearing instead of standard subtitles

By reading them louder than the audio description

By including as short text indicating their presence in the video content

By using only key words instead of complete sentences

8. Which of the following characteristics do not apply to audio introductions?

It serves as a framework for blind and visually impaired people

It serves to understand a source text

It is a continuous piece of prose

It only provides factual information

9. Which of the following functions apply to audio introductions?

Informative

Foreshadowing

Expressive

Instructive

10. When adapting or translating an already existing audio description (or audio introduction, or audio subtitles) to make it easy-to-understand, what might be necessary?

The provision of summaries and glosses

A major restructuring of the content

The addition of pictures or images

The use of subordination

11. What can extended audio subtitles convey?

Audio subtitles or easy-to-understand audio subtitles

An audio introduction to the content

Explain difficult terminology

All of the above options are correct

12. Why is it a good idea to create separate soundtracks for audio description and audio subtitles?

Because it is much easier to do so

Because the audience then can choose the preferred service: audio description, or the combination audio description/audio subtitles

There is no reason to separate audio description and audio subtitles.

Otherwise you will not be able to hear what is audio subtitles and what is audio description

13. What are the main technical principles of easy-to-understand audio description?

They are very similar to the technical principles of standard audio description

They should focus specifically on the optimisation of the listening experience

They might consider avoiding the standard 180 words per minute, and diminish it

They are more fixed and do not change when the genre of the audio-visual text changes

14. Which of the following should an easy-to-understand audio describer master?

The use of specialised software that generates timecodes

The ability to provide audio description scripts with clear legends for the voice talent

The ability to identify those moments when the audio description can go over the soundtrack

All of the above

15. In professional software used in audio description, speech is marked by a digital rythmo band

True

False

16. Professional software used in audio description allows descriptors to add comments and notes in an additional text track.

True

False

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