Pilar Orero
PhD (UMIST, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a member of the research group TransMedia Catalonia.
She has written and edited many books, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters all on Media Accessibility, Leader and participant on numerous EU funded projects such as HBB4ALL, ACT, UMAQ (Understanding Quality Media Accessibility), EasyTV (interaction to accessible TV) and ImAc (Immersive Accessibility.
REBUILD and HELIOS 2018-2021 and the three ERASMUS+ ADLAB PRO, EASIT and LTA. Co-founder of the Media Accessibility Platform MAP. She works in standardisation and participates in the ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility.
Member of the working group ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35. Member of the Spanish UNE working group on accessibility.
She is also a member of ANEC Accessibility working group.