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 ...

In the weeks since Netflix released the Shawn Levy-directed historical drama All the Light We Cannot See, the limited series has received mixed reviews. Mashable's Belen Edwards said the show's ...

"Audio description is a narration track that describes what is happening on-screen, including physical actions, facial expressions, costumes, settings and scene changes," Netflix's Director of Content ...

EXTENDED AD The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. EXTENDED AUDIO DESCRIPTION The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act ...

Netflix is expanding its accessibility features to support more global languages. Its Audio Descriptions (AD) for vision-impaired and Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH) will be available ...

Camille walks a diagonal. Her gaze toward the ceiling falls. Her right hand cups her mouth, left hand follows as she walks backward. She peers over a lifted leg, taps ...

When a fire alarm was triggered on Sept. 25 at London’s Red Bee Media — the company that’s the distribution hub for many U.K. broadcasters — the BBC and Channel 4 went off air for a few hours on a ...

Talk us through a day in your role: As an audio describer, I help create the audio description track which makes TV shows and films accessible to visually impaired audiences. I’m responsible for ...

Audio descriptions on Amazon Prime Video can be helpful for visually impaired viewers, but they can also be intrusive if you're not looking for this feature. Here’s how you can easily turn off audio ...

Kathryn Locke is employed as a researcher on the Australian Research Council's discovery grant, "Diversifying audio description in the Australian digital landscape". Tama Leaver receives funding from ...