Audio Description Services

Make Visual Content Accessible to the Blind and Visually Impaired

At Natively Fluent, we provide professional Audio Description (AD) services to make your visual content accessible to the blind and visually impaired community. Audio descriptions provide spoken narration that describes key visual elements, ensuring that individuals with vision impairments can fully engage with your videos, presentations, and digital content. Our audio description services align with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) goals, ensuring that your organization’s communications are accessible to everyone.

Why Choose Natively Fluent for Audio Description Services?

  1. Experienced AD Specialists: Our team of expert audio describers are trained to provide clear, concise, and impactful descriptions that enhance the viewer’s understanding of visual content.
  2. Flexible Delivery Options: We offer audio description services for pre-recorded content, live events, and streaming media, ensuring accessibility across all formats.
  3. Compliance with Accessibility Standards: Our services meet ADA, Section 508, and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) requirements, ensuring your content is compliant with accessibility regulations.
  4. Industry-Specific Expertise: We offer tailored audio description services for industries including business, education, healthcare, government, non-profit, public safety, technology, and transportation.

What is Audio Description?

Audio Description (AD) is a narration service that provides spoken descriptions of visual elements in video, live events, and other visual content. This additional audio track explains important details such as actions, facial expressions, settings, and scene changes, helping individuals with visual impairments fully understand and enjoy the content.

Our Audio Description Service Offerings

We offer a range of audio description services to meet your accessibility needs:

  • Pre-Recorded Audio Description: Enhance your video content, such as movies, training materials, webinars, and promotional videos, by adding professionally narrated audio descriptions that integrate seamlessly with the existing soundtrack.
  • Live Audio Description: Ensure accessibility for live events, conferences, presentations, and performances with live audio descriptions provided in real-time for visually impaired audiences.
  • Streaming and Digital Media: We localize and integrate audio descriptions for your streaming content, eLearning platforms, and digital media, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and improving user experience.

Industries We Serve with Audio Description Services

Our audio description services are customized to meet the specific needs of various industries:

  • Business & Finance: Ensure accessibility in corporate videos, financial presentations, and training materials, helping visually impaired employees and clients stay engaged.
  • Education & eLearning: Provide inclusive learning experiences by adding audio descriptions to educational videos, online courses, and virtual classrooms for visually impaired students and educators.
  • Healthcare: Localize patient education videos, medical tutorials, and healthcare training materials with audio descriptions, making critical information accessible to all patients.
  • Government & Public Safety: Ensure accessibility in public service announcements, emergency briefings, and legal proceedings with professionally narrated audio descriptions.
  • Entertainment & Media: Make films, TV shows, and online content accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences with audio description for entertainment platforms.

Why Audio Description Matters for Accessibility

In today’s digital world, ensuring that your visual content is accessible to the blind and visually impaired is not just about compliance—it’s about inclusivity. Audio descriptions:

  • Provide Equal Access: Ensuring that individuals with vision impairments can fully engage with your content fosters a more inclusive environment.
  • Enhance User Experience: Audio descriptions add value to the overall experience by making visual content more understandable for all users, not just those with visual impairments.
  • Meet Legal Requirements: Compliance with accessibility laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ensures that your organization avoids potential legal issues and meets its ethical obligations.

How We Ensure High-Quality Audio Description

At Natively Fluent, we follow a detailed process to ensure that every audio description is of the highest quality:

  1. Content Analysis: We begin by analyzing the visual content to identify the key elements that need to be described, focusing on actions, settings, and expressions that are crucial to the story.
  2. Script Development: Our experienced audio describers craft concise scripts that are designed to fit naturally into the pauses of the original audio, ensuring a smooth flow.
  3. Voiceover Recording: We select professional voiceover artists who provide clear, engaging narration that enhances the overall experience without disrupting the original content.
  4. Integration and Testing: We seamlessly integrate the audio descriptions into your content and perform rigorous testing to ensure the descriptions are accurately timed and synchronized.
 

Get a Quote for Audio Description Services

Ready to make your visual content accessible to the blind and visually impaired? Contact us today for a free consultation or to request a quote for our professional Audio Description services.