Since the recent explosion of widely available generative artificial intelligence (AI), it now seems that a new AI tool emerges every week. With varying success, AI offers solutions for productivity, ...

Identify what important visual content will need to be described audibly (e.g. graphs, equations, images, etc.) for individuals with vision impairments. Important on-screen text should also be ...

Voice actors have the power to transport audiences to other worlds. A particularly meaningful type of voice acting—audio description or description narration—is vital to making television, movies, ...

Access to film and television for visually impaired audiences is provided mainly through a feature called ‘Audio Description’ often referred to as ‘AD’. AD is a verbal commentary that is, generally, ...

NHK STRL is conducting research on automated audio descriptions (AADs) to help visually impaired people enjoy live TV programs. In a live sports program, AADs supplement the breaks between the ...

This year, Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls on May 19. And Netflix is using the occasion to announce major plans to expand the global translations of its audio descriptions and subtitles for ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...