Join Describeathon 2019! Help make YouTube videos more accessible to blind viewers by adding your voice to this day of description.
Use YouDescribe, our free web-based description tool, to describe the visuals of your favorite YouTube videos and have fun doing it!
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day MAY 16 2019, amateur and professional describers all over the world participated in a day of description. Volunteers describe as many YouTube videos of as many kinds as they can in a single day.
Want to join our next Describe-a-thon?
Join our Community of Practice at Facebook, and follow us at twitter @SKERI_YD as we share audio description best practices, YouDescribe tricks and tips for recording the best quality descriptions, and tweets about Accessibility and Univeresal Design for Learning all year long!
Want to make your own audio descriptions? Volunteer describers used YouDescribe – Smith-Kettlewell’s free, web-based tool for recording and playing audio description for any YouTube video.
Want to critique audio descriptions? Viewers can rate videos 1-5 stars at the desktop app YouDescribe or our NEW iOS app currently in beta testing; Download it onto your apple devices here.
Be descriptive, be brief, be part of the GLOBAL audio description revolution.
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Rehabilitation Engineering Research CenterThe Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to better understand and address the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind...