Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
5 results found in audio description.
- Audio Describer (Describer, AD Writer)
- A professional who writes and sometimes narrates audio descriptions for film, television, live performance, museums, and digital media. Audio describers craft concise verbal narration that conveys ess…
- Auditory Description (Audio Description, Spoken Description, Verbal Description)
- The practice of providing spoken narration that describes visual information, making content accessible to people who are blind, have low vision, or benefit from auditory reinforcement of visual conte…
- Embedded Description (Inline Description, Integrated Description)
- A technique for making presentation content accessible where the speaker verbally describes relevant visual information on slides — including text, images, graphics, and other visual aids — as part of…
- Live Description (Real-Time Description, Live Audio Description)
- The practice of providing descriptions of visual content in real time as events unfold, as opposed to scripted descriptions added during post-production of recorded media. Live description is used in …
- Minimum Viable Description (MVD)
- Minimum viable description (MVD) is an emerging framework for audio description that establishes the foundational level of visual information needed to provide equal access to video content without in…