Katie Ellis receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. She was a member of the Department of Communications and the Arts Audio ...

Voice actors have the power to transport audiences to other worlds. A particularly meaningful type of voice acting—audio description or description narration—is vital to making television, movies, ...

Audio description (AD) is defined as “the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions.” Essentially, AD is a narration of meaningful visual information in a video to provide ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau has issued a reminder that stations in TV markets 101 to 110 must implement its new audio description rules by Jan. 1. On Oct. 17, 2023, ...

If you listened to a video without visuals, you wouldn’t get the complete experience. But that is the exact experience many blind and visually impaired people have when they follow a video tutorial or ...

This year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YuJa, Inc., a leader in cloud-based platforms and applications for the regulated sector, announces the release of AI-Generated Enhanced Audio Descriptions as part of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. This is what happens when you get titanic technology companies leveraging ...

The verse may be extremely sub-standard but at this point, it stands correct for many of us, with many parts of the world in lockdown. Netflix and binge-watching have been a perfect marriage since ...