Audio description is a resource that narrates imagens in words allowing people who have a visual impairment, blind and low vision, besides other disabilities and elderly people, to understand audiovisual productions, images, photography, theater scenes , movies etc.
How does it work in audio description production?
The first step is to elaborate a script with all the narration to be done by the audio writer. The professionals receive the video file that will be a reference, and then look after the scripting. This description has to be with a controlled time to don’t disturb the dialogues during the audiovisual content. After the scripting is carried a cognitive revision by a visual impairment that talks with the scriptwriter to do some adjustments. In the end, there is the record in the studio.
Audio description is very significant, because it expands the visually impaired comprehension and participation in the media, helping in the social inclusion of this group. We can find this tool in entertainment, educational and cultural products/services. And even in platforms like Youtube and Netflix it’s possible to encounter some videos, movies and series with audio description, but in the movie theaters is rarer, which makes it a lot inaccessible for many people, a content that can be watched and seen by some people, it can’t be accessed by another, this is a hard reality, demonstrating the difficulty of accessibility.
Everyday, many visually impaired people access social networks looking for contents, texts, posts, images and many can’t understand the content, as it is not available in the way in which they can understand. In front of all these circumstances, we have an important role to change, it’s essential that we produce information and communication more accessible each day, changing our habits and making all the contents in presencial and digital understable for everyone.
How can we make the difference and produce accessible content on social media?
The social media allows you to add a resource called Alternative Text or Alt-Text, where you can include a hide captions with the photo details and the content can be understood by visual impairment with reading applications.
How you can do it: How to Add Alt-Text in Facebook – Accessibility for Online Teaching and Learning
2. Twitter
On Twitter, you can also add a photo description that can be read using softwares like VoiceOver in IOS and TalkBack in Android.
How you can do it: How to make images accessible for people
3. Instagram
This social media uses the virtual intelligence to create a detailed photo description that is read by a screen reader or the user can add your own alternative subtitle on the post advanced settings.
How you can do it: How to Add Alt Text to Instagram Posts
At last, a good tip:
You can watch movies and series on Netflix with your friends or people who have visual impaired using the audio description tool, you just have to go through the following steps:
Audio Description for TV shows and movies
Let’s make a world more accessible for everybody!
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The article above was edited by Laura Silveira.
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