From the course: Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies
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When should you use descriptive audio?
From the course: Accessible Video: Caption, Search, and Compliance Strategies
When should you use descriptive audio?
- So you might be wondering, when should you use audio description? Well generally speaking if you are considering doing open or closed captions and you wanna reach a broader audience audio description can be helpful. However there are certain groups that are required to do audio description. These include broadcasters. If you work in broadcasting there are situations where you may have to provide audio description. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act put in place by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States currently effects top broadcasters. For example, local affiliates of the top four national broadcasters ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC that are located in the top 60 television markets, the 60 largest broadcast markets. As well as the top five non broadcast networks. These are cable networks, USA, TNT, TBS, The History Channel, and the Disney Channel are currently the top five. Each must provide 50 hours per calendar quarter. This breaks down to…
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