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Facilitating Access Learning & Teaching

Translation as creation – what I’ve learnt from image descriptions

In Facilitating Access, we look at embracing diversity and minimising barriers.  Translation between formats is critical to supporting students and their preferred and necessary learning styles.  One such translation is the task of creating an image description: from the visual into text.  We are given two images and these recommendations for description writing: More detail than an alt-text  Placement of objects or text  Image style  Colours  Names of people or things  Emotions, such as facial expressions  Surroundings  Concise – up to […]

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Facilitating Access Learning & Teaching

Introduction: translating between formats

What is translation between formats? If we translate between formats, we ensure that information or content is available in more than one format. We may provide the translations ourselves, or we may use resources that are already translated (e.g. YouTube videos that have closed captions). Here are some examples: If we link to a podcast […]