By:
Grace Williamson 
Descriptions are a powerful and efficient way of comprehending the content of any form. Descriptions add depth to the content and provide important details about the characters, events, or context. Similarly, audio descriptions are gaining wide popularity due to communication transformation and stand as an important gateway that excites users to gain a deeper understanding of the video content.
The article delves deeper into the audio description services. It provides immediate insight into how to add audio descriptions to video for better accessibility for people with disabilities.
Before moving on further, let’s quickly understand what does audio description mean? Let’s understand this through an example while watching a movie; you must have felt that some visual elements of the video are not being understood properly.
This can happen to anyone, even to normal people. But a visually challenged person has to face trouble whenever no description is provided in videos. Therefore they require audio descriptions to find out the relevance of the video content and feel more comfortable and connected with it. The descriptions are placed to ensure it doesn’t hurt the content and look natural.
In the videos with audio descriptions, you must have seen that along with the voice of the lead role, a supporting voice also keeps on explaining the events and characters from behind so that even the visually challenged people can understand the video content; this is simply an audio description. It is an audio-narrated description of visual elements of TV programs.
Now we have understood the meaning of audio description, it's time to break down how you can create audio descriptions to make your videos accessible.
No doubt, creating audio descriptions is a daunting task. Therefore, companies prefer outsourcing their work to an external support team specializing in audio description services. But not all can outsource due to cost or lack of budget.
To help make your video more accessible to people with visual disabilities, we provide some methods to help you create audio descriptions.
Watching your videos throughout allows you to understand the video properly. It makes you familiar with all the visual moments that need to be specified in the wiring process. It also helps you understand where there is no dialogue and needs to be noted for further work.
Now you must start writing the script, describing the scenes and other details in the video. While writing scripts for your videos, you must ensure that lines fit into the gaps between dialogues. By keeping the content precise and crisp, you can enhance the audio description and prevent it from colliding with other existing audio.
After completing a clear and concise script, it's time to record it in a professional tone and voice to make it impressive. The voice narration should depict the essence of your video with a perfect explanation of its various elements. The voice must look professional and clear. Always bear in mind that your voice should not sound like a robot.
The next task you have to do is to bring your audio description file into the post-production software. Here you have to add your narration file to the video and adjust the audio and volume to make it more understandable. While you also need to make sure that the audio works fine, can be heard clearly with the video, and doesn’t look vague.
After preparing the audio description, you must export an original video, audio file, and description narration as one MP3 or WAV file. Once you export the file, you almost reach the point of availing the benefits of audio description in your video.
This is where your audio file links with the video content. Once uploaded, you can see a pop-up button, allowing users to turn it on and get the option to listen to the video content with clear descriptions in available languages. The entire process is not so hard; you can easily perform it with the right tools and software.
Interesting Read: What is Web Accessibility & Why is it Important
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community on web standards, has listed techniques to publish audio descriptions for visual material.
Adding a user-selectable soundtrack allows your viewers to toggle between the original soundtrack – without an audio description, and the secondary version – with an audio description. Now, the option to publish a secondary audio description completely depends upon the capabilities of your media player.
Let’s say; for example, a viewer can have an option for two tracks, one with a description and the second without a description. Now users get the option to choose any one of the two audio tracks. The original and secondary soundtracks may merge with audio description tracks to give users an optimal experience. A secondary audio track with a description is sufficient for users and allows them to toggle for an enhanced experience.
The approach merges the original soundtrack and additional audio description into a single track. This method creates and publishes two versions of the same content, preventing it from getting obscure. The two created versions have – one with an audio description and the other without it.
It is more similar to the above techniques, where you need to publish two versions of the same video. But the difference is that this technique provides extended time to the second version, allowing the vast details to be covered briefly. It pauses the video momentarily, allowing more time for audio. Depending on your video player capabilities, you can publish a video with and without a description, which can be turned on and off.
This method is appropriate for media that doesn’t have time-based information. The technique is used for ‘talking heads,’ especially in press conferences or class lectures. It is also considered as an alternative to audio description. However, it is unsuitable for a situation where the speaker's identity or multiple speakers are unclear.
This is called a dynamic approach to publishing audio descriptions. It involves describing all the relevant visual information at the time of writing. However, it doesn’t work well in all scenarios. The method helps record a presentation with a slide deck containing critical information that can be explained, such as statistical graphs, etc.
The method is appropriate when other audio description techniques are unavailable to the publisher. It works as an advisory technique but has minimal support across video players. HTML5 video helps users to use WebVTT description files. The screen should be used to read the file for users.
It should focus on the information that should be evaluated to address the needs of visually impaired people. This should also include information about the people and the background of visuals that might impact the video’s message.
You should include the following:
Audio descriptions are a boon for those who are visually impaired and do magic, as done by captions and transcripts for those who are Deaf or hard of hearing. Audio descriptions make video accessibility possible and help users easily access the content. Audio accessibility provides equal opportunity for people with disabilities to access and feel connected with the content. It improves quality, creates better opportunities, and promotes social integration.
Audio accessibility is no doubt simply the path of visually impaired people; connect with us today to know more about how we can help you add audio description to the video.
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