Speakers identified in audio descriptions
Supplemental requirement
Speakers are identified understandably within all audio descriptions.
Applies when there are multiple speakers in the video.
Except when
- The speaker has a hidden identity as part of narrative structure.
- Identity is identifiable within the context of use.
Tests
Consistent speaker name in audio descriptions
Procedure
For each audio description:
- Check that each speaker in the audio or video is consistently identified.
Expected results
- #1 is true.
Key Terms
- audio description
narration added to the soundtrack to describe important visual details that cannot be understood from the main soundtrack alone
For audiovisual media, audio description provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, on-screen text, and other visual content.
Audio description is also sometimes called “video description”, “described video”, “visual description”, or “descriptive narration”.
In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue. See also extended audio description.
If all important visual information is already provided in the main audio track, no additional audio description track is necessary.
- extended audio description
audio description that is added to audiovisual media by pausing the video to allow for additional time to fit in the audio description
This technique is only used when the sense of the video would be lost without the additional audio description and the pauses between dialogue or narration are too short.