“Daredevil,” Netflix’s newest original series that features blind lawyer Matt Murdock take to the streets as the eponymous protagonist, ironically didn’t come prepared to aid blind fans in watching ...

“Hundreds of animals gather at the bottom of Pride Rock: a tall, flat ledge that towers over the rest of the savanna,” an actor narrates. “Zazoo, a small blue bird with a large beak, flaps to the ...

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, ...

Audio description (AD) is defined as “the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions.” Essentially, AD is a narration of meaningful visual information in a video to provide ...

If you listened to a video without visuals, you wouldn’t get the complete experience. But that is the exact experience many blind and visually impaired people have when they follow a video tutorial or ...

Big movies heading straight to streaming could be a boon for accessibility, but not until audio description is as ubiquitous as captions. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, covering the ...

The verse may be extremely sub-standard but at this point, it stands correct for many of us, with many parts of the world in lockdown. Netflix and binge-watching have been a perfect marriage since ...

Theatergoers who cannot see the stage clearly, or at all, have growing options for experiencing plays and musicals, thanks to the Central Florida Audio Description Initiative (CFADI) for the visually ...

"Emily scurries across the street wearing a short green coat." That's the vague audio description given to blind and low-vision viewers for one of Lily Collins's first outfits in the season two opener ...

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 ...