The mission of the American Council of the Blind’s (ACB) Audio Description Project (ADP) is to promote and advocate for the use of high-quality audio description in television, movies, performing arts, museums, educational materials, and other venues where the presentation of visual media is critical to the understanding and appreciation of the content.
The ADP sponsors multiple initiatives to promote audio description, including the BADIE essay contest and UniDescription’s Descriptathon project, and provides professional training through the Audio Description Institute. The ADP also maintains the world’s only comprehensive listing of movies and TV series with audio description.
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 events.
Disney’s film trailer for Frozen is an example of audio description in film: https://vimeo.com/300241133