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Stay ahead of accessibility regulations, AI technology advances, and industry best practices for audio description — written by the Synchrogen team for content creators, broadcasters, and accessibility professionals.
Good audio description is invisible to sighted viewers and essential to blind ones. These are the principles that separate broadcast-quality AD from descriptions that are technically present but practically useless.
WCAG 2.2 Success Criteria 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 require audio description for pre-recorded video. Here's what each criterion means, how they differ, and what 'sufficient' audio description actually looks like in practice.