University of Western Sydney

Course Details

Master of Accessible Media

Course Description

The Master of Accessible Media offers a unique opportunity to acquire practical knowledge and skills in the development of accessible media for an increasingly legislated environment. Skills learnt involve inter-lingual subtitling, intra-lingual captioning, re-speaking, speech recognition, audio description, script writing, accessible short filmmaking, machine translation, crowd-sourcing and project management. Media accessibility includes provision of access to audio-visual content in language, to hearing impaired, hard-of-hearing and vision impaired groups, in a range of places such museums, opera houses, live performances and events, tourist attractions, parliaments, hospitals, airlines and airports, and classrooms and lecture halls. With more content and access to content on online and mobile devices, as well as the learning access expansion in the education sector, the demand for media accessibility and expertise in the design and production of accessible media is a growth field.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
18month

Career outcomes

Career in program related field.

Master of Accessible Media University of Western Sydney