Audio description (AD) is defined as “the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions.” Essentially, AD is a narration of meaningful visual information in a video to provide ...

In the back of the Boston Citizens Opera House, Laura Pailler prepares for a matinee of “Funny Girl,” the revival musical about an aspiring comedian and Broadway star. Pailler is here to provide audio ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...

Identify what important visual content will need to be described audibly (e.g. graphs, equations, images, etc.) for individuals with vision impairments. Important on-screen text should also be ...

New AI solution makes audio description faster, more affordable, and scalable across education, government, and ...

The Korean film Parasite is the first foreign language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. But vision-impaired moviegoers here can't enjoy it because it's not available with audio description. The ...

Big movies heading straight to streaming could be a boon for accessibility, but not until audio description is as ubiquitous as captions. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, covering the ...

This year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for ...

Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) is conducting research on information accessibility and its technologies to realize a broadcast media where everyone can access the information they ...