스포츠 경기장의 청각장애인 정보접근성 향상을 위한 디지털 접근성 전략 연구 = Study on Digital Accessibility Strategies to Improve Information Accessibility for the Hearing Impaired in Sports Stadiums

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study analyzes digital accessibility cases in the performing arts sector and international sport events to derive policy implications for improving information accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing spectators at sport stadiums. Because in-stadium information is still delivered primarily through audio, limiting deaf and hard-of-hearing spectators' right to information access, this study compared four cases—the Smart Caption Glasses of the UK's National Theatre, the AI-based smart caption glasses “OWL” of the National Theater Company of Korea, the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics, and the FIFA World Cup 2026—using four criteria: accessibility policy, applied technology, target users, and applicability to sport stadiums. The findings show that the performing arts sector has implemented real-time captioning through AI speech recognition and smart wearable technology, while international sport events are expanding accessibility policy from physical to digital information accessibility through strengthened government-industry collaboration. These technologies can also be interpreted, from the perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Creating Shared Value (CSV), as a strategy generating both social value and industrial competitiveness. This study demonstrates that digital accessibility technologies validated in the performing arts sector are applicable to sport stadiums and proposes the need for digital accessibility policy developed through collaboration among sport organizations, corporations, and local governments.