Bilingual accessible cartoons for the inclusion

Abstract

In order for the ideological values and social criticism impregnated in the cartoons to be appreciated and explored also by people with visual impairments, they need to be made accessible. That is, its verbal content needs to be read and the imagetic content translated into words, through the intersemiotic translation mode known as audio description or AD. To ensure that audio description fulfills its role in building users' mental image, consulting by a visually impaired person is essential. In order to reach a wider audience and explore the multiple potentials of audio description, we present the accessible bilingual cartoons project, available on Instagram and in the Facebook, through the accounts @chargesacessiveis and Galeria Virtual de Charges Acessíveis, respectively, in which the cartoons have audio description in Portuguese and in English.