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La descripción es la narración verbal de elementos visuales importantes en medios de comunicación y producciones en vivo. Normalmente se añade durante pausas naturales dentro de los diálogos, la música o el audio de fondo. El objetivo básico de la descripción es brindar acceso a las personas con pérdida visual, a la información contenida en producciones de televisión y de películas, producciones teatrales, librerías y museos.
In April 2009 the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) solicited input from teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs) around the U.S. in an attempt to measure the awareness of the availability of described educational video-based media (i.e., video) and to uncover trends concerning overall video usage among TVIs. An online survey was publicized by way of various e-mail lists, websites, and professional development organizations; this effort resulted in 222 unique responses, summarized in the various sections below.
This 60-minute webinar, the fourth in a series, features a live panel discussion about how YouDescribe, a tool anyone can use to add description to YouTube videos, is being used to provide access to content beyond the K-12 classroom.
This public service announcement on "Video Description" is brought to you by the Family Center on Technology and Disability and Dicapta. Video description describes providews audio-narrated descriptions of the images in a program/video for viewers with blindness or low vision. For more information in Spanish about video description, please visit www.dicapta.com/descripcionhoy.
Watch an American Foundation for the Blind sponsored PSA about description. Features Emmy-winning TV host, Jeff Corwin.
Topics for this 90-minute webinar include: 1) An update of the activities of the VDRDC; 2) The "Dos and Don'ts" of description; 3) Live demonstrations of two FREE software programs which can be used to add description to media; and 4) An overview of resources for obtaining described materials for use in the classroom.
A lesson plan from ReadWriteThink about using description to improve students' written communication skills. This plan focuses on utilization of Disney's popular The Lion King, but teachers can broaden their approach to this lesson by utilizing any one of the hundreds of accessible titles available from the DCMP collection.
This short document was drafted by the Audio Description International (ADI) Guidelines committee in 2003 and serves as a useful reference of guidelines for audio describers. The Audio Description Project, formerly the ADI, an initiative of the American Council of the Blind, makes these guidelines available.
This video segment is taken from the interactive VDRDC/DCMP webinar, "Do It Yourself," Educational Description: Guidelines and Tools. This segment features a presentation by Rick Boggs from The Accessible Planet (TAP). Rick offers guidelines on how to provide video description for the blind or visually impaired.
This an archive video of the Video Description Research and Development Center webinar #3 - YouDescribe – How You Can Add Audio Description to Any YouTube Video!. The webinar occurred May 30, 2013. Learn about YouDescribe, the exciting new tool developed by the Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRDC). YouDescribe is a free tool that anyone can use to add description to YouTube videos. YouDescribe includes everything needed to create description; all you need to provide is a microphone. In addition, YouDescribe has a free embeddable player which can be used to include described videos on your own site.
The American Foundation for the Blind and the American Council of the Blind overview the SAP (Secondary Audio Program) channel.
2012 announcement from the FCC concerning description rules for certain broadcast stations and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs).
In her paper about audio description (AD), Sabine Braun outlines a discourse-based approach to AD focusing on the role of mental modeling, local and global coherence, and different types of inferences. Applying these concepts to AD, she discusses initial insights and outlines questions for empirical research, with an aim to showing that a discourse-based approach to AD can provide an informed framework for research, training and practice.
This thesis investigates the impact of conventional and alternative styles of audio description on the blind and low viewers' comprehension, entertainment experience, trustworthiness of the audio description narrative, and style preference. Author John Riccio asked 18 blind and low vision participants to watch three episodes of the television show Odd Job Jack in a single audio description style. Each participant was asked to complete a pre and post study questionnaire, and a post episode questionnaire at the completion of each episode. Results indicated that the alternative style of audio description provided better understanding, entertainment value, and is more trustworthy.
A study by Maija Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2012. Analyses how shot distance is reflected in audio description by syntactic and semantic means. Four different-language audio descriptions of two films were utlilized, contrasting the visual source text with the verbal translation. The study aims to show how audio description can make use of diverse representational strategies and linguistic devices in rendering shot distance. These strategies and devices could be used purposely to compensate for visual cues so as to give an idea of space similar to that conveyed by the visual representation.
