Audio Description Project
Here you will learn everything about Audio Description, from what is it, to samples, to who does it, to how and where it is available in various media. You can also join our online discussion, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, and be notified of updates to this page by typing your email address in the box to the right and pressing the Submit button.
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Eyes on Success offers podcasts discussing products, services, and daily living tips for people with vision loss. Two recent podcasts discussed audio description:
A play in Wales is being presented with integrated audio description (by the cast members) -- a fine example for other play writers! See The Importance of Being Described ... Earnestly. (Posted Sep 4)
HGTV and Discovery replaced Disney and TNT on July 1 as networks required by the FCC to utilize audio description. But where is the AD? HGTV and Discovery both list numerous programs as having AD tracks, but we aren't sure they are getting out to viewers. And Disney appears to have dropped AD from all its programming as of July 1. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU RECEIVE AT YOUR LOCATION? Either write the webmaster (link at the bottom of the page) or post on the ADP List forum. Please identify your location and TV provider. (Posted Sep 4)
Access Tech Watch 360 is offering a free podcast reviewing audio described movies. The current one runs about 30 minutes and has two visually impaired reviewers reviewing three movies. Give a listen: It's Movie Night! Accessible Audio Movie Review. (Posted Sep 4)
At the July 2018 ACB Conference, the membership voted on 23 proposed Resolutions, one of which was entitled TV Listings. The resolution urged the FCC to "to exercise all appropriate authority to require the broadcast and non-broadcast networks to establish and/or join an automated digital listing of all available audio-described programming; and ... monitor such listings on an ongoing basis for quality assurance ..." (Posted Aug 14)
The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA, recently contracted the LightHouse MAD Lab to create a tactile version of one of the original Peanuts comic strips. While the work can be viewed on request at any time, there will be a special Accessible Tour Day on September 23 at 11:30am which emphasizes tactile objects. For information, contact monica@schulzmuseum.org. If you are a museum looking for tactile displays, please contact the MAD Lab. (Posted Aug 14)
Many people who are visually impaired also like to participate in video games. While we have no experience with or knowledge of accessible games, we found this video of "Fortnite" very interesting because the owner audio describes what he is doing in the portions of the game he shows. Very interesting and worth a look! Fortnite Video. (Posted Aug 14)
The next opportunity to be trained as an audio describer will come on October 18th in western North Carolina with an all-inclusive price for transportation from the airport and lakeside accommodations. Visit the Audio Description Training Retreats website for details. (Posted Aug 7)
On September 18, 1 new audio described DVD was released: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. On September 11, two new audio described DVDs were released: Ocean's 8, Superfly.
Recent DVDs: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Ocean's 8, Superfly, Adrift, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Book Club, Tag, Action Point, Deadpool 2, God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, Show Dogs, Avengers: Infinity War, Breaking In, Life of the Party, The Rider, Final Portrait, Overboard, The Miracle Season, Ready Player One, I Feel Pretty, Isle of Dogs, Rampage, Super Troopers 2, Traffik, A Quiet Place, 7 Days in Entebbe; Beirut; Blockers; Tyler Perry's Acrimony; Pacific Rim Uprising; Paul, Apostle of Christ; The Death of Stalin, Unsane, Love, Simon; Loveless; Sherlock Gnomes; The Strangers: Prey at Night; Tomb Raider 2018; more...
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Single Parents premieres Wednesday September 26 at 9:30 pm.
Airplane Repo,
Vegas Hot Rods, Vegas Rat Rods. NOTE:
Since Discovery is newly offering audio description and
repeats often, not all episodes of the previously listed shows
will be described. See the new
Discovery AD Schedule. [We
have urged them to keep this up to date! Write them if it
is not.]
Rel
Sundays at 9:30 pm.
Beachfront Bargain Hunt,
Caribbean Life. NOTE: Since HGTV is
newly offering audio description and repeats often, not all
episodes of the previously listed shows will be described. See the
new
HGTV AD Schedule.
[We have urged them to keep this up to
date! Write them if it is not.]
I Feel
Bad previews Wednesday September 19; and
New
Amsterdam premieres Tuesday September 25 at 10 pm. (Article
Updated Sep 18)
Actiview
Is On a Roll!Actiview, a free app which supplies audio description tracks for a movie playing in a theater or on any other device, has announced three movies this month: Pick of the Litter (limited release), Far From the Tree (limited release), and (Disney's) Christopher Robin. Previous tracks include Antman and the Wasp, Incredibles 2, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Megan Levy, Wonderstruck, Breathe, Coco, The Man Who Invented Christmas, and Dealt. (Updated Aug 21)
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The Audio Description Project's website collects and provides information on audio description in all its forms: live theatre, television, movies, DVDs, and more. Started in 2002 by AD International, funding and direction for this website now come from the American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project (started in March 2009). Read more about this site...
Audio Description (AD) is the descriptive narration of key visual elements of live theatre, television, movies, and other media to enhance their enjoyment by consumers who are blind or have low vision. AD is the insertion of audio explanations and descriptions of the settings, characters, and action taking place in such media, when such information about these visual elements is not offered in the regular audio presentation. Read more about audio description...
Based on his doctoral thesis and teaching audio description around the world, ADP Project Director Dr Joel Snyder's book, The Visual Made Verbal, is available in print (English and Russian), for Kindle, and on Bookshare. Read more details about Dr Snyder's book...
Dedicated organizations around the world facilitate the offering of audio description in select movie theaters, videos, live theatre, and television programming, and this website attempts to expose their fine work to as many interested viewers as possible. Thank you for visiting!
