Rocío Bernabé Caro holds a professorship in barrier-free communication at the International University of Applied Science of the SDI München. She has a MA in Translation (UGR) and a MA in Accessible Documents, Technologies and Applications (UNIR). The topic of her PhD was easy audiovisual media services for all (UAB). She is Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany). She was the project leader of the EU co-funded project Live Text Access, which aimed to create certified learning materials for real-time intralingual subtitlers by respeaking and velotyping. She was project partner, accessibility manager, and leader of the Intellectual Output (IO) 2 of the EU co-funded project EASIT, Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training. She is a partner and IO leader of the EU co-funded project Train2validate. Her newest research focuses on easy Internet and end-user-centered validation processes. She is also involved in the ISO standard for Plain Language and the German DIN standard for Easy-to-Read
Óscar García is project manager at Plena Inclusión Madrid and leader, a third-sector organisation that supports and defends the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. Óscar García has a degree in Journalism and a postgraduate in Universal Accessibility. He has been translating contents into easy-to-read for 12 years. In this time, he has published handbooks in Spanish such as “Lectura fácil: métodos de redacción y evaluación” (Easy-to-read: writing and assessment methods) and “Guía práctica de orientaciones para la inclusión educativa: lectura fácil” (Handbook on guidelines for educational inclusion: easy-to-read). He translated into Spanish the IFLA publication “Guidelines for easy-to-read materials”. Among the contents that he has translated into easy-to-read, he produced the Spanish Constitution, several acts, museum publications (Museo del Prado, among others), medical leaflets and vocational training handbooks. He is also member of the Spanish standardisation group that published the standard UNE 153101 EX about easy-to-read contents production.
