MRIDA, 9 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Mérida Festival and the Caja Badajoz Foundation renew their agreement for the accessibility and inclusion of the event, for which this event will be “one more year, fully accessible”.
In this way, the contest will be accessible to people with sensory functional diversity, for deaf people with a magnetic loop system and live subtitling (screens on stage and online system for smartphones), and for people with visual problems with a service audio description and Touch Tour on demand.
The agreement was signed this past Monday by the managing director of the Board of Trustees of the Mérida International Classical Theater Festival, Pedro Blanco, together with the director of the Caja Badajoz Foundation, Emilio Jimnez.
This collaboration framework emerged in 2018 with the aim of achieving universal accessibility so that anyone can enjoy the works of the Mérida Festival, thus achieving a “Festival for all”.
As the Mérida Festival explains in a press release, the audio description, subtitling and vibrating backpack services do not require a specific location, the area of influence is the entire theatre, so the spectator can choose their ticket for any area of the venue.
The user service telephone numbers (calls and WhatsApp), intended for those who need general or specific information on the accessibility services offered by Audiosigno during the festival, are 687.659.875 and 628.667.256.
ACCESSIBILITY MEASURES
Thus, according to his account, the 69th Mérida Festival will have live audio description for the visually impaired, a communication support system for the blind or visually impaired.
Through individual audio receivers, the user listens to a voice-over that describes the relevant visual content of the play. The purpose of this service is to provide information about the spatial situation, gestures, attitudes, landscapes, costumes, etc
People who want to use this service must indicate so at the Festival box office and they will be given the receiver (on loan) to listen to the audio description.
For its part, it will also have live subtitling for people with hearing disabilities, a computerized system that transcribes oral information into a written medium.
The user who wishes can follow the live subtitling of each work through their Smartphone or Tablet, or through the screens placed next to the stage.
To access the subtitles through a digital device (Smartphone or Tablet) you must scan a QR code with a link to the live broadcast of the subtitles. The QR code will be provided to the spectator both at the box office and at the entrance to the venue.
The contest will also have vibrating backpacks, “one of the ways that best allows deaf people or people with hearing loss to enjoy music is vibration”, in such a way that music can be transformed into vibration in various ways.
Thus, vibrating backpacks, for example, record the frequencies of music and transform them into vibrations that can also be regulated, allowing their users to choose the intensity with which they want to enjoy each song.
Along with the backpacks there are also headphones, lights that light up to the rhythm of the music and other systems that help facilitate accessibility at concerts.
Finally, it has a ‘Touch Tour’, in which, always on request, the audio describers also carry out a Touch Tour of each work for blind or visually impaired people who request it.
This activity consists of a guided tour prior to the accessible performance, where you can touch the elements of the set and costumes, and walk around the theater stage listening to detailed descriptions of the show.
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