Guest editors: Najwa HAMAOUI & Daniel DEJICA

This special issue of Essachess – Journal for Communication Studies intends to contribute to the existing endeavours in the field and offers its readers, scholars and professionals, a series of novel approaches on Interpersonal and inter-linguistic communication in the digital age, with a focus on digital inclusion and accessibility. As such, the collection of five selected original contributions for this special issue provide in-depth analyses and perspectives on respeaking and live subtitling for deaf and hard-of-hearing, computer aided interpreting, the audio-description landscapes in Russia, Greece, and the Arab world, and last but not least, the contribution of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in giving accessibility to population with special needs.