Audio description

Audio description is a process that enables blind and visually impaired people to better perceive visual events. The action is accompanied by an acoustic commentary to make it understandable for the audience. Audio description is a service for blind and visually impaired people that conveys in words what sighted people perceive through their sense of sight. Audio description is therefore an acoustic description of visual content. Audio description is familiar from the film industry, but is also increasingly being used at congresses, conferences and sporting events. The events on stage or in the hall, but also on the sports field, are described to enable blind and visually impaired people to better understand what is happening.