Search Results "Audio Description"

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 28 CFR Parts 35 and 36, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description (NPRM)
  D. The Department’s Rulemaking History Regarding Captioning and Audio Description

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• Research and History > Research Documents > Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness Summary Report
  Hardware and software

  Audio files can be formatted as .wav, mp3, .mov, or other files....

• Legal Documents > United States of America v. The International Spy Museum - Settlement Agreement
  Audiovisual presentations and computer interactives

  Provide upon request audio descriptions of all audiovisual presentations and computer interactives such that the walk-in visitor has an integrated viewing of all the Museum's permanent and...

• Federal Documents > Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities (2010 ADA Title III Regulations with amendments issued through Dec. 2016)
  § 36.303(g)(4)(ii)

  (ii) A public accommodation may comply with the requirements in paragraph (g)(4)(i) of this section by using the existing assistive listening receivers that the public accommodation...

• Products and Additional Resources > Products
  Audio Description Associates Audio Description Services
  

  Audio Description (AD) provides a verbal version of the visual image....

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Proposed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines NPRM - Preamble
  412.1.1 Digital Television Tuners (Section-by-Section Analysis)

  412.1.1 Digital Television Tuners (Section-by-Section Analysis) This section proposes that, where audio description is played through a digital television tuner, that such tuner conform...

• Federal Documents > Standards > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Final Standards and Guidelines (with amendments issued through Jan. 2018)
  414.1.1 Digital Television Tuners

  Digital television tuners shall provide audio description processing that conforms to ATSC A/53 Digital Television Standard, Part 5 (2014) (incorporated by reference, see 702.2.1)....

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Proposed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines NPRM
  412.1.1 Digital Television Tuners

  Where audio description is played through digital television tuners, the tuners shall conform to ATSC A/53 Digital Television Standard, Part 5 (2010) (incorporated by reference in Chapter...

• Federal Documents > Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description Final Rule
  § 36.303(g)(5) Performance requirements for captioning devices and audio description devices

  (5) Performance requirements for captioning devices and audio description devices....

• Regulatory Support Documents > Regulatory Impact Analyses > Final Regulatory Assessment and Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Final Rule - Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description
  1.4.2. Minimum Scoping Requirements for Captioning and Audio Description Devices

  The Department has lowered the minimum required scoping for captioning and audio description devices in order to ensure that the scoping requirements sufficiently provide access to individuals...

• Federal Documents > Technical Assistance > Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act - Frequently Asked Questions
  C.6.ii. - If a Federal agency is distributing a television or multimedia production or a web-cast presentation, does it have to be open or closed captioned and audio-described?

  Section 1194.24(c) and (d) of the Access Board's standards require that all training or informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission and which have audio...

• Products and Additional Resources > Products
  Acoustiguide exSite Series Wand-Style Audio Guide
  

  exSite Guiding Systems Acoustiguide will continue to support its exclusive exSite line of wand players, designed and manufactured with our proprietary audio tour technology....

• Federal Documents > Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description Final Rule
  § 36.303(g) Movie theater captioning and audio description

  (g) Movie theater captioning and audio description—...

• Federal Documents > Standards > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Final Standards and Guidelines (with amendments issued through Jan. 2018)
  415.1 General

  Where ICT displays video with synchronized audio, ICT shall provide user controls for closed captions and audio descriptions conforming to 415.1....

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Proposed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines NPRM
  413.1 General

  Where ICT displays video with synchronized audio, ICT shall provide user controls for closed captions and audio description conforming to 413.1....

• Products and Additional Resources > Products
  Mind's Eye Live Description for Performing Arts
  

  (Live description services offered only in Madison and Dane County area of Wisconsin.) Live audio description in the performing arts can take different forms.  ...

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Proposed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines NPRM - Preamble
  413.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)

  Specifically, this provision would require hardware displaying video with synchronized audio to locate user controls for closed captions and audio description in specified locations of equal...

• Federal Documents > Standards > 36 CFR Part 1194 - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Final Standards and Guidelines (with amendments issued through Jan. 2018)
  414.1.2 Other ICT

  ICT other than digital television tuners shall provide audio description processing....

• Research and History > Research Documents > Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness Summary Report
  Current Technology

  Current Technology While hands on exploration is important, technology provides expanded opportunities to interface with exhibits through magnification or description....

• Rulemaking Process Documents > NPRMS > 28 CFR Parts 35 and 36, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations - Movie Theaters; Movie Captioning and Audio Description (NPRM)
  A. Movie Basics, Captioning, and Audio Description Generally

  Audio description fills in information about the visual content of a movie where there are no corresponding audio elements in the film. ...

• Links > Nonprofit Organization
  The Audio Description Project: An Initiative of the American Council of the Blind
  

  The mission of the American Council of the Blind's (ACB) Audio Description Project (ADP) is to promote and advocate for the use of high-quality Audio Description in television, movies, performing...

• Federal Documents > Technical Assistance > Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act - Frequently Asked Questions
  C.8 - Are Section 508 access requirements satisfied if the agency provides such access following a request for it, as opposed to in anticipation of a request for access?

  For example, the production of a training video, which is covered by the Section 508 standards, must include the incorporation of open or closed captioning and audio description during the...

• Research and History > Research Documents > Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness Summary Report
  Design parameter considerations

  for Accessible Media for the Whitney Museum put forward the following design parameters for shopping for appropriate technologies: Allowance for synchronization of caption text and audio...

• Federal Documents > Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities (2010 ADA Title III Regulations with amendments issued through Dec. 2016)
  § 36.303(g)(4)(i)

  (i) A public accommodation shall provide at its movie theaters a minimum of one fully operational audio description device for every two movie theater auditoriums exhibiting digital movies...