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The 2020 Game Awards are scheduled for December 10, 2020 and, for the first time in their history, will offer a special audio descriptive mode for people who are blind or have low vision.
Geoff Keighley of The Game Awards took to Twitter to make the announcement, saying “I am pleased to confirm that #TheGameAwards will have a special audio descriptive mode livestream on @YouTubeGaming for the first time. Accessibility is important.”
To get an idea of what this will be like, we can point you to the work that Ubisoft has done for games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6, and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
For descriptive audio videos, a narrator describes what is happening in a particular scene, while also ensuring that it does not interrupt the spoken dialogue that occurs in the trailer or game.
For more information, you can check out our discussion on how to transcribe the audio of an entire video game to better understand the process involved in making this important accessibility feature possible.
The Game Awards will also feature an Innovation in Accessibility category. The list includes The Last of Us Part 2, which we said set a new gold standard for accessibility earlier this year.
The Game Awards will take place on December 10 at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET / 12 am GMT (December 11), with a 30-minute pre-show starting just before.
The Game Awards already announced that we will get a new image of Dragon Age 4 and that it will feature presenters such as Gal Gadot, Brie Larson, Reggie Fils-Aime and Stephen A. Smith.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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