Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Enhance User Experience with Audio Description

Synchronized audio description—a spoken description of the activities presented through video—is another essential element in making video accessible, in this case for people who are unable to see the video, whether because they are blind or for some other reason. The audio description is recorded on a separate track, which is usually inserted into natural pauses in the soundtrack. It describes key visual elements of the presentation. The audio description may include information that describes the scene, the characters, their body language, and any other visual elements that may be important to understanding the video but are not available from the soundtrack alone. Like captions, audio descriptions ...