About Video Description
What is Video Description?
Video description provides audio narration of important details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone. During pauses in dialog, audio descriptions of video provides crucial information about the visual experience. People who are blind or visually impaired and anyone without access to the display will benefit.
Consider Captioning Your Video Description
If you caption your video descriptions, everyone will benefit from the richness of the additional information that the descriptions provide. We'll work with you to make your media accessible. Contact us for more information.
Ten Reasons to Describe Your Web Videos
- Video Description helps to focus on details that may go missing, even for sighted viewers.
- Learn names and labels that you wouldn't get from the dialog alone.
- Multi-task while listening to video described content.
- Turn television into radio, and listen to your favorite shows
- Put video described shows on your iPod, and listen while walking, jogging, or driving.
- Provide additional language support for English as a second language users.
- Combine video descriptions with captions for rich search engine retrieval.
- Meet or exceed the W3C Web Accessibility guidelines, adopted by many state provincial and federal requirements.
- Your audio sounds even better with audio description.
- Make your content fully accessible for people who are blind or have low vision.