Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games

Video gaming has gained immense popularity as a form of entertainment all around the world. However, most games are not fully accessible for players with visual disabilities. Audio description (AD) translates visual elements into spoken words, thus making games accessible to players with vision loss...

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Autores: Mangiron i Hevia, Carme|||0000-0002-6421-8581, Zhang, Xiaochun|||0000-0001-6334-6525
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Data de publicação:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Visual game accessibility
Audio description
Reception study
Blind and partially sighted players
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spelling Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video gamesAn experimental pilot studyMangiron i Hevia, Carme|||0000-0002-6421-8581Zhang, Xiaochun|||0000-0001-6334-6525Video gamesVisual game accessibilityAudio descriptionReception studyBlind and partially sighted playersVideo gaming has gained immense popularity as a form of entertainment all around the world. However, most games are not fully accessible for players with visual disabilities. Audio description (AD) translates visual elements into spoken words, thus making games accessible to players with vision loss. The TransAD4games project aims to explore the creation and translation of audio descriptions for video games to improve game accessibility across languages and cultures. This article presents part of the research findings from the TransAD4games, reporting the outcomes of a reception study on players' preferences and opinion about AD for the game Before I Forget (3-Fold Games, 2020) translated from English into Spanish and AD created from scratch in Spanish. Results show that while players preferred the original Spanish AD created from scratch, they also appreciated the translated version, suggesting that translating AD is a viable and acceptable option to improve visual game accessibility. 22025-01-0120252025-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/318757https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1075/ts.24037.manreponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengAgència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003030 2021/SGR-00077open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3187572026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
An experimental pilot study
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Mangiron i Hevia, Carme|||0000-0002-6421-8581
Video games
Visual game accessibility
Audio description
Reception study
Blind and partially sighted players
title_short Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
title_full Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
title_fullStr Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
title_full_unstemmed Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
title_sort Translated from English or created in Spanish? The reception of audio description for video games
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Zhang, Xiaochun|||0000-0001-6334-6525
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Video games
Visual game accessibility
Audio description
Reception study
Blind and partially sighted players
topic Video games
Visual game accessibility
Audio description
Reception study
Blind and partially sighted players
description Video gaming has gained immense popularity as a form of entertainment all around the world. However, most games are not fully accessible for players with visual disabilities. Audio description (AD) translates visual elements into spoken words, thus making games accessible to players with vision loss. The TransAD4games project aims to explore the creation and translation of audio descriptions for video games to improve game accessibility across languages and cultures. This article presents part of the research findings from the TransAD4games, reporting the outcomes of a reception study on players' preferences and opinion about AD for the game Before I Forget (3-Fold Games, 2020) translated from English into Spanish and AD created from scratch in Spanish. Results show that while players preferred the original Spanish AD created from scratch, they also appreciated the translated version, suggesting that translating AD is a viable and acceptable option to improve visual game accessibility.
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