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The Audio Description Project

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The Audio Description Project (ADP) advocates for high-quality audio description in television, movies, performing arts, museums, educational materials, and other visual media. The ADP sponsors activities and events to train describers, honor audio description creators, and raise awareness of the value of audio description.
 
Initiatives and services provided by the ADP include:
  • The only directory of films and series with audio description; users can discover which movies and shows have AD and how they can be accessed (on broadcast television, cable, streaming services, and DVDs)
  • Lists of museums and performing arts centers that have a history of providing audio description
  • The Awards Gala, a virtual night of glamour to recognize outstanding AD in media; access recordings at ADAwardsGala.org. The Awards Gala is also the home of the one and only AD People’s Choice Awards!
  • The Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE), an essay contest co-sponsored with the Described and Captioned Media Program; students are invited to access content on the DCMP site and write essays critiquing the AD. Access award-winning essays on the BADIE blog.
  • The ADP Awards, honoring organizations and people who provide great AD at the community level; a nomination period opens each January, and winners are announced during the ACB convention in July.
  • The Audio Description Institute is held twice a year to train writers and producers to create effective AD. Taught by Dr. Joel Snyder, the founder of the ADP, and a team of blind and sighted AD professionals, the week-long sessions provide theoretical and practical experience for participants.
  • The AD Professionals Directory helps producers find organizations and people who write, narrate, edit, engineer, and provide quality control for AD.
  • The ADP Conference, held every year during the virtual portion of the ACB convention, presents panels of experts discussing a wide range of topics related to audio description.
 

Please consider supporting the Audio Description Project by making a donation through the link below.

What is Audio Description

Audio description (also known as “description,” “video description,” “described video,” or “verbal description”) uses words to convey visual images primarily for people who are blind or have low vision. In media, scenery, action, and other visual elements are described with narration in the natural pauses between dialogue and sound elements. 

Audio Description can be used for TV, films, museum exhibitions, live performances, and other events.