{"id":24722,"date":"2019-11-08T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/?p=24722"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:52:24","slug":"dementia-friendly-design-of-television-news-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/2019\/11\/08\/dementia-friendly-design-of-television-news-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Friendly Design of Television News Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2019\/11\/enabling-tech-801x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2019\/11\/enabling-tech-801x1024.jpg 801w, https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2019\/11\/enabling-tech-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2019\/11\/enabling-tech-768x982.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of supervising two of our talented students on BSc Professional Sound and Video Technology (Liam Funnel and Isabel Garriock) as they worked on an interesting project on media access requirements for people with dementia. Very happy to (rather belatedly) announce the publication of their combined work in the Journal of Enabling Technology &#8211; the article is open access and can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/JET-02-2018-0009\/full\/html\">downloaded here.<\/a> Many thanks also to Professor Tracey Williamson, now at University of Worcester&#8217;s Association for Dementia Studies, who provided invaluable guidance and made this project possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of supervising two of our talented students on BSc Professional Sound and Video Technology (Liam Funnel and Isabel Garriock) as they worked on an interesting project on media access requirements for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/2019\/11\/08\/dementia-friendly-design-of-television-news-broadcasts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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