We have a sample video on YouTube with an Audio Description track available.

For Windows, there is a free reader called NVDA Macs come with a builtin reader called VoiceOver.

There are several screen readers available for both Windows and Mac.

We recommend pausing the video to listen to the Audio Description, when the content is rich in dialog, music, or noise:

Start playing the video and select the Audio Description text using your screen reader's controls (usually either the mouse or the tab key).

Click the Settings icon, then Subtitles, and select the Audio Description track:.

Listening to the Audio Description on YouTube's player: If you do so, ensure you click Publish when you're done.

You can use the text editor to make changes to the Description text before publishing it.

The Audio Description file will be listed under the Subtitles/CC tab. Label the file Audio Description, to avoid confusion with any existing caption files.

Choose Subtitles file, and click Browse.

Click Add new subtitles or CC, choose the language, and then select Upload a file:

Set the Language for your video, if it wasn't already set.

Select the Video Manager and open the Edit menu for the video you want to add Audio Description to.

Log into your YouTube account, click your avatar and open the Creator Studio:.

You're associated with everyone else who used it, so the link won't. It's kinda like using a public WiFi or VPN IP to edit Wikipedia.

I'll occasionally use built-in link shorteners from Amazon or Twitter when posting affiliate links to a product or tweet in the video. Associating the Audio Description file with your YouTube video: You can use link shorteners, but it's not really necessary. ad.vtt file from the Results Email, or from the Audio Description Details page, in your CaptionSync account. Once results are available, download the. Use the Guidance for Describer field to ask the describer: Short and concise descriptions are preferred, as they will not be used with an Extended Audio Description-capable player. Getting the Audio Description file:įollow the instructions in our tutorial to place an Audio Description request for your YouTube video. Watch a sample of a Smart Player displaying Audio Description results. To use our Smart Player with YouTube videos (even the ones you don't own), you just need to place a captioning submission for the YouTube URL to the video, and then request Audio Description for this submission. NOTE: We would recommend employing our Smart Player instead to display Audio Description results, since the YouTube player is not an Extended Audio Description-capable player, and requires the user to pause the video to listen to the descriptions. CaptionSync's Audio Description results can be used on YouTube, along with a screen reader, to listen to the video description.

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