Teaching online? Add audio description. Make learning accessible so students of all abilities can learn anywhere, anytime. Today, more than 60% of the world’s students are learning at home. The Covid-19 Pandemic is limiting or temporarily closing educational institutions everywhere to help contain virus spread. Now, students of all ages… Continue Reading Make learning accessible with audio description
May 28, 2020
Tom Landry, broker and owner of Benchmark Real Estate, does a Facebook Live tour of a condo for sale in the East End of Portland, Maine, on March 23, 2020. Brianna Soukup / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images These days seems like we're all online all the time. Remote… Continue Reading Stay safe. Stay apart. And sell real estate using video with Audio Description.
May 8, 2020
One of the many great things about our work at Descriptive Video Works (DVW), is knowing what a difference our work makes in people’s lives. We are proud to have collaborated with Ubisoft to do the audio description (AD) for one of the first video game trailers to include AD.… Continue Reading DYK? We did the audio description of “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” video game trailer
April 16, 2020
Today is Audio Description Awareness Day. Take the Challenge and try AD. Tell us about it. Here’s the challenge: If you are a blind or visually impaired person and know a sighted person who doesn’t know about audio description (AD) or if you are sighted and know a vision-impaired person… Continue Reading Happy Audio Description Awareness Day!
January 8, 2020
We were lucky to meet up with the multi-talented Kent Staines: actor, author, voice-over narrator and writer of audio description for Descriptive Video Works (DVW). If you’re new to audio description, it’s when the visual elements of a movie, TV show, live sports event, meeting or podcast, are described by a… Continue Reading Spotlight on Kent Staines: Described video writer, actor, narrator, and author
September 23, 2019
It's exciting to bring Descriptive Video Works' (DVW) world-leading voice in the field of Audio Description to a global leader in providing digital service for video games and other interactive content. At DVW, we specialize in making visual media accessible to blind and visually-impaired audiences around the world. A big… Continue Reading We’re thrilled to be one of the newest members of the Keywords Studio family!
March 3, 2019
There is a lot of competition today for mostly fee-based delivery of video on your internet-connected TV or portable media devices like iPads. Some of those services offer audio description for their programming, while others are under pressure to do so. At the start of 2019, the following services offer… Continue Reading Looking for movies or other programs with audio description?
February 12, 2019
Most major studios have audio description tracks professionally recorded for their movies. In the past, if the cinema installed the equipment necessary to offer audio description, it was only available at one of the theatres within the multiplex cinemas. With the advent of digital projection and a DOJ (Department of… Continue Reading Heading to the movies? Here’s how you get audio description services
January 27, 2019
This article is part of the Audio Description series by Fred Brack, Webmaster for the Audio Description Project. In 2002, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that major broadcast television networks and the largest cable television networks must provide a certain number of hours of audio described television shows each quarter… Continue Reading How to access audio description for television
January 27, 2019
This article is part of the Audio Description series by Fred Brack, Webmaster for the Audio Description Project, discussing audio description, a narration service for individuals who are blind or have visual impairment. A specially trained individual known as an audio describer provides an ongoing dialogue of visual events that… Continue Reading What exactly is audio description? How does it help people with vision impairment & blindness?
The need for accessible content is always increasing, we appreciate being able to rely on partners that have developed an expertise in delivering accessible videos in both English and French. We always look to include DV Works as part of our team to help us meet our video web accessibility requirements. The team is always very responsive and pleasant to work with.
Veronique Gravel — Director of Client Services, Banfield
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