Easier audio description. An easy listening and easy understanding access service

Audio description narrates key visual and some sound elements of any media or cultural content, like a movie, an opera, or a book cover. These descriptions can be inserted into natural pauses when the content has dialogue or narration, or it can be free delivery, as in the audio description of a sculpture. Audio description is a complex accessibility service. The production goes through several stages since it should be written before being read aloud, and often mixed for its delivery. As with any accessibility service, it can be for recorded or live situations, giving rise to different ways for its creation, production, and distribution.

When the production of an audio description starts with a written text, this can be drafted –or adapted—following Easy to Read guidelines. Easy to Read is an accessibility service, like subtitling or audio description. Easy to Read is a functional variety of a national language which follows specific guidelines. Easy to Read function is to facilitate reading and understanding: readability and legibility. The result of writing an audio description script in Easy to Read should result in an easier to understand audio description. Looking for improvements on this audio channel will also deliver an easier to listen to service. The overall objective of this presentation is to describe some new hybrid services for audio description based on other accessibility services such as Clean Audio and Easy to Read.