Accesibilidad multilingüe en la interacción humano-lector de pantalla con contenido web: un estudio exploratorio

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Álvaro García Garcinuño
Jesús Torres-del-Rey

Las personas ciegas —y otras personas con discapacidades— utilizan lectores de pantalla para interactuar con sitios web. Este artículo examina cómo estas tecnologías de apoyo gestionan el contenido multilingüe, crucial para garantizar un acceso equitativo a la información y a las actividades multilingües para todo el mundo. Basándonos en el estudio pionero de García (2020), que analizaba de manera sistemática una amplia gama de lectores de pantalla en un entorno web multilingüe, ofrecemos una perspectiva más amplia y académica mediante herramientas de análisis cualitativo como la codificación temática. Hemos ampliado las páginas de prueba, la metodología y el enfoque analítico de García (2020) para identificar retos específicos relacionados con la traducción en el rendimiento multilingüe de los lectores de pantalla y para clasificarlos en un conjunto de categorías y subcategorías de fenómenos de traducción y localización que pueden ser útiles en futuros estudios de investigación y en el diseño de interacciones.

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multilingualismo, acesibilidad web, lector de pantalla, texto a voz, navegadores web, traducción, localización, interacción persona-ordenador, codificación temática

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García Garcinuño, Álvaro; Torres-del-Rey, Jesús. «Accesibilidad multilingüe en la interacción humano-lector de pantalla con contenido web: un estudio exploratorio». Tradumàtica: traducció i tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació, 2024, n.º 22, pp. 426-49, doi:10.5565/rev/tradumatica.380.
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