What is Audio description?
'''Audio description''' is an explanation for [[Visually impared|visually impaired]] or blind people of [[television]], [[dance]], [[opera]], [[movie|movies]], [[Museum|museums]] or other visual art.<ref>{{Citation|last=Zdenek|first=Sean|title=5. Captioned Irony|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226312811.003.0005|work=Reading Sounds|year=2015 |pages=141–182|publisher=University of Chicago Press|doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226312811.003.0005 |isbn=9780226312781 |access-date=2022-04-08}}</ref> A [[narrator]] makes a description of what's happening, usually when nobody is talking. The first [[Movie|talking picture]] ever shown especially for the blind was a 1929 screening of ''Bulldog Drummond'' for members of the [[New York Association for the Blind]] and [[New York League for the Hard of Hearing]], which had a live description for the visually-impaired people.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EOEDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Dr.+Margaret+Pfanstiehl%22&pg=PT132|title=Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, Access, and Reception|last=Ellis|first=Katie|date=2019-02-01|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317627845|language=en}}</ref> [[Descriptive video service]] which was started by the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] is used for the [[DVD]]<nowiki/>s of certain movies as part of the audio description.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Development of the Descriptive Video Service|url=http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/library/v&c/cronin.htm|access-date=2022-04-08|website=www2.edc.org}}</ref> == References == <references /> [[Category:Audio technology]] {{tech-stub}}