<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Good point, Doug. The W3C glossary only includes:<div><dt class="label" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif;"><br></dt><dt class="label" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif;">audio description</dt><dd style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: sans-serif;"><p>narration added to the soundtrack to describe important visual details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><p class="prefix"><strong>Note 1: </strong>Audio descriptions of <a title="definition: video" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/appendixA.html#videodef" class="termref" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 100, 0);">video</a> provide information about actions, characters, scene changes, and on-screen text.</p><p class="prefix"><strong>Note 2: </strong>In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue. (See also <a title="definition: extended audio descriptions" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/appendixA.html#extended-addef" class="termref" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 100, 0);">Extended audio descriptions</a>.)</p></div></dd><div>I personally prefer "audio description" because it refers to what “it” is - it is audio that is used to describe video. On the other hand "video description" refers to what you might be translating - the video.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On May 3, 2017, at 4:49 AM, Doug Hayman <<a href="mailto:dhayman@uw.edu">dhayman@uw.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I could see "video description" being more universal in that if you made a video and only had audio describing what was on the screen then a person who was Deaf and blind using refreshable Braille display might only get the closed caption content and NOT the audio description. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If on the other hand the video description was both text and audio, say text-to-speech audio output and a text file that could be accessed, it'd be different and more universal.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Jennifer Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsuttondc@gmail.com" target="_blank">jsuttondc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings, ATHEN list folks (along with a few others I've bcc-ed):<br>
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I'm sorting through my resources, and I'm confused about what the correct term is for adding audio to videos to help explain visual elements for blind people.<br>
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I know that we initially called it "audio description," but I had in mind that the term was shifting to "video description" since that describes better what it is, at least to a degree.<br>
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At the same time, I still see current articles and sites calling it "audio description."<br>
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Does anyone have the definitive "scoop?"<br>
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I'd welcome links/citations in support of responses.<br>
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Is this, perhaps, one of these situations where we might *like* the term to change, but the term "audio description" is so prevalent that progress is slow?<br>
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Are there legal ramifications, i.e. maybe some state laws refer to it in different ways?<br>
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Thanks in advance. I'm updating some things, and I'd like to get it right.<br>
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If it doesn't matter/they're now considered simply synonymous, I'd like to know that, too.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Jennifer<br>
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