Discover how to meet Section 508, WCAG, and ADA requirements for video

Information is the cornerstone of the social benefit of government programs. Over 80% of internet traffic is video streaming. Government entities host their videos on their own websites, and increasingly on YouTube channels and social media platforms. Yet the vast majority of government videos are not accessible to the 340 million people who are blind or have visual impairments. Audio description makes video content accessible as required for Section 508, ADA, WCAG, IDEA, and EAA compliance.

Audio description is to visually-impaired people what closed captioning is to the hearing-impaired. It provides supplemental narration that makes visual content accessible. It plays a crucial role in promoting equal access and accessibility for people with visual impairments.

Audible Sight is a cloud-based tool designed to make high-quality videos accessible for visually impaired people. It’s designed for use by government video developers and administrators who curate videos. Audible Sight surpasses conventional audio description services by leveraging automation for speed, scalability, and affordability.

Traditional methods for producing audio description require an experienced audio description writer, a voice actor, and a video editor. Audible Sight requires no technical skills, nor video editing, voice recording, or audio editing skills. Without prior experience, you can easily add audio descriptions and make videos accessible. Audible Sight leverages recent advances in AI to democratize and streamline the process. Within minutes, Audible Sight will automatically break any video into logical scenes and generate first-pass text descriptions from the visuals. You can easily QC and edit the descriptions and move them using drag-n-drop. Audible Sight inserts the selected descriptions into the video using lifelike synthetic text-to-speech, and (where needed) automatically inserts small still-frame pauses between scenes to make space for the descriptions. This is called “Extended Audio Description,” which is an industry standard.