Audio description
Narration conveying important visual information not available from the primary audio.
What Audio description does not show
It addresses visual content, not captions for spoken content.
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Related terms in Accessibility and provenance
What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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Questions about Audio description
What is Audio description?
Narration conveying important visual information not available from the primary audio.
What does Audio description not show or guarantee?
Narration conveying important visual information not available from the primary audio. It addresses visual content, not captions for spoken content.
Which area of the glossary does Audio description belong to?
Accessibility and provenance: What a page owes a keyboard, a screen reader and a fact-checker: the accessibility basics and the C2PA vocabulary for proving where a file came from.
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