Welcome to the Audio Description Project!

All ADP Conference Audio/Video Now Available

We have obtained the last of the July ADP Virtual Conference audios and videos.  Visit our Conferences page to access them.  (Posted Sep 22)

Describing Diversity in Theatre

The subject of how to describe diversity (for example, actor's races) in theatre has become a topic of great interest in the past year or two.  VocalEyes UK has just published the results of a project started in mid-2019 involving both users and providers of audio description, as well as theatre professionals.  The results of an online survey, interviews, and workshops were used to prepare the report.  In addition to the report, links to additional resources are provided at the Describing Diversity Report website.  (Posted Sep 22)

Netflix adds AD to Avatar: The Last Airbender

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ just got more accessible to blind audiences, according to an article in the LA Times, which features comments by blind filmmaker James Rath.  This is not the first time that Netflix has added an AD track to a movie or series that they acquired without AD.  Kudos to Netflix!  (Posted Sep 15)

Flight Paths - a New Way of Storytelling

There's a new online partially animated production called Flight Paths which integrates audio description with the main audio of the video.  "Take a journey with old and contemporary tales of blind visually impaired travelling artists, inspired by the Goze - blind female performers of Japan.  Combining animation, aerial movement and creative audio description, witness stories of travel, blindness and migration through interactive navigation."  Take off now with Flight Paths!  (Posted Sep 15)

New Site Feature:  Find Described Video

Want to know if a favorite movie or TV series is audio described?  Instead of searching manually through the Master AD List, you can now simply type the title (or part of a title) in the box at this top of this page (or a similar box on the Master AD List page) to find out.  Give it a try!  The only caveat for use is that if you type more than one word, they must be in the proper order (e.g., "potter deathly" will not find "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," but "harry potter", "deathly hallows", or even just "potter" or "deathly" will work).  This option has been added to the mobile device Menu also.

  You can now also check all media AD counts.

  Our official Find a Described Video Press Release!  (Updated Sep 15)

Audio Described Trailers

Don't we wish more movie trailers were audio described?  Here's one from Netflix for a movie about the story of the Paralympic games, now available on Netflix.  And another one from a company trying to raise funds to tell the story of the 2018 Race Across America featuring four professional blind athletes.  And of course all Apple TV+ trailers are described.  (Updated Sep 1)