Audio description
A narration track that describes what is happening on screen for people who cannot see the video.
Audio description adds a narrator who says what is shown on screen when the dialogue does not: who entered the room, what the chart says, which button the presenter clicked. People who are blind or have low vision use it to follow video that relies on the picture.
The easiest way to meet the need is often to make the main soundtrack carry the information, by having the presenter say what they are showing. Where that is not possible, a separate described version of the video is the usual answer. WCAG asks for audio description of prerecorded video at Level AA. Ontario’s AODA website rule leaves this criterion out, along with live captions.
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