Conclusion

Art Audio Description (ADs) for visually impaired people are structured ‘expert to non-expert’ spoken monologues written and planned for oral delivery with a main informative and imaginative function. These can combine with instructional portions of texts that guide museum-goers in the physical navigation of museums and galleries or instruct them on the tactile exploration of art items. AD for the arts as a sub-genre of AD had not been systematically explored prior to this point because of the considerable challenges in its study. While its use is increasing, art AD is still quite new. Small-scale studies have already shown that linguistic specificities can be detected. Despite the similar readability index of the corpora, which indicates that the ADs normally require ten years of formal education to be understood, and despite the overall presence of short words and sentences, we observed several interesting deviations from the average quantitative data calculated via language analysis software.