Study On Television News Accessibility For Visually Impaired People The Case Of Etv57 News Addis Ababa

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Different studies recognized that visually impaired people watch television by spending morerntime than people who have no sight problem. Conversely, there is a challenge of accessibility ofrntelevision message for visually impaired people to understand full information disseminated byrntelevision. World Health Organization report shows that 1.3 billion people of the world affectedrnby any form of vision impairment and most of them challenged to access audiovisual contents inrntheir home easily. The number of people those have sight problem in Ethiopia is around fourrnmillion. This number is equal to the last six least populated African countries total population orrnequivalent to the last fifteen least populated European countries total population. Based on thernabove facts, researcher tried to investigate the content accessibility of Ethiopian BroadcastingrnCorporation ETV57 news for visually impaired people those who have no hearing problem. Thernobjective of this research has to evaluate television message accessibility for visually impairedrnpeople and challenges they faced to access ETV57 news message. Mixed methods of researchrnanalysis approach were employing for the study. To investigate the accessibility of ETV57 newsrnfor visually impaired people, researcher uses news evaluation by using checklist, two focusrngroup discussion and in-depth interview with journalists and visually impaired people. Fivernhundred eighty news items have taken as a sample in two months to evaluate ETV57 newsrnmessage accessibility for visually impaired people. At the end, the major finding of this researchrnshows that 58% of ETV57 news is not accessible for visually impaired people. All participants ofrnthe focus group discussion and in-depth interview with visually impaired peoples confirmed thatrnthey have challenged by television news to access its message properly. Specially, most ofrnbusiness news, meteorology, and scrolled news /computer graphics news are that newsrncategorized under inaccessible news. Giving awareness about challenges of visually impairedrnpeople to access television news for journalists and supporting television news accessibility byrnlegal policy has what recommended by researcher.

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