시각장애인을 위한 화면해설서비스 연구 - 관련 법령 및 활성화 방안에 대한 전문가 의견을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine how the audio description service for the visually impaired can be provided in various fields such as movies, exhibitions and performances. As a result of the analysis, our court considers that the multiplex movie theater should provide audio description service for the legitimate convenience of the visually impaired based on the current Act on Disability Discrimination and its enforcement ordinance. Experts agreed that the amendment of the Act on Persons with Disabilities requires the provision of an obligation to provide convenience services such as video commentary services to movie and video companies in the Anti-Discrimination Act. However, there were differences in the revision of the Act on the Promotion of Film and Video Act and the Promotion of Cultural and Arts Act. Especially, the opinions of the representatives of the Film Promotion Committee and the people of the blind were urged to be careful. And the Cultural Arts Promotion Act seemed to start to discuss the revision based on the experience after the discussion about the movie video method. Experts view on how to activate the audio description service is based on the following criteria: ‘expanding professional staff', ‘improvement of awareness of access service', ‘expanding the scope of users', ‘establish communication mechanisms between related organizations', ‘constant monitoring system’, ‘amendment of related laws’. Experts agree that activation of audio description service will lead to expansion of related industries. This can be expected to have positive effects such as the creation of jobs through the spread of new cultural industries. However, since the commercialization of indiscreet commercialization may lead to deterioration of the quality of the audio description service, a method of securing the quality level of the audio description service should be considered. The Audio description service can be useful not only for the visually impaired but also for those who want to use visual information as auditory information. Therefore, it is necessary to promote public awareness so that the audio description service can be recognized as a new type of content access method. For this, various studies should be supported.