Livedescribe Web Redefining What And How Entertainment Content Can Be Accessible To Blind And Low Vision Audiences

Post production audio description (AD) has become recognized as a standard accessibility requirement for blind and low vision (B/LV) audiences and their friends and family. Although it is standardized, it is not commonly used due to the intensive effort involved in its creation and the lack of browser-based tools available for its production. In this paper, we will describe a new technology called, LiveDescribe, developed to allow description to be produced within a web browser for online videos such as those on YouTube.