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, ...

“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 ...

NEW YORK—CBS, The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing have announced that they will be broadening access to "The 75th Annual Tony Awards" by providing for the first time an audio description ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you’re a broadcast television station in one of 10 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), there’s a new requirement that goes into effect on January 1, 2024, with respect to the FCC’s ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As set forth in the FCC’s 2020 Audio Description Order, adopted in October 2020, an expansion of the audio description rules is taking shape. The availability of audio description ...

The Korean film Parasite is the first foreign language film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. But vision-impaired moviegoers here can't enjoy it because it's not available with audio description. The ...

Katie Ellis receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. She was a member of the Department of Communications and the Arts Audio ...

Dec. 18—ROCHESTER — Laurie Hadley had all the spoilers for Rochester Civic Theatre's Thursday's performance of "A Christmas Carol." And she didn't stop talking about what was happening on stage for ...