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Tweak understanding for 1.2.3 and 1.2.5
patrickhlauke May 10, 2021
0b9920b
Expand audio description note to mention lowering of bg music/sounds
patrickhlauke May 10, 2021
42999ac
Change "will also" to "may"
patrickhlauke Jun 28, 2023
f91c843
Update guidelines/terms/20/audio-description.html
patrickhlauke Apr 29, 2024
dbe5c72
Revert change to AD definition
patrickhlauke Jun 10, 2024
6fea6ac
Remove suggestion to "duck" less-important audio/dialogue
patrickhlauke Jun 10, 2024
aef783b
Add new para about using media alternative when no gaps in dialog
patrickhlauke Jun 10, 2024
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Update understanding/20/audio-description-or-media-alternative-prerec…
mbgower Jun 24, 2024
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Update understanding/20/audio-description-prerecorded.html
mbgower Jul 10, 2024
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Update understanding/20/audio-description-prerecorded.html
mbgower Jul 10, 2024
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Merge branch 'main' into patrickhlauke-understanding-audiodescription
patrickhlauke Jul 26, 2024
3c1c453
Markup cleanup
patrickhlauke Jul 26, 2024
86adef7
Further language tweaks
patrickhlauke Jul 26, 2024
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Merge branch 'main' into patrickhlauke-understanding-audiodescription
patrickhlauke Mar 29, 2025
424ba20
Add reference to 1.2.7
patrickhlauke Apr 11, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into patrickhlauke-understanding-audiodescription
kfranqueiro May 2, 2025
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Merge branch 'main' into patrickhlauke-understanding-audiodescription
patrickhlauke May 23, 2025
dea5101
"Success Criterion" > "success criterion"
patrickhlauke Sep 13, 2025
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions guidelines/terms/20/audio-description.html
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other visual content.
</p>

<p class="note">In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue.
(See also <a>extended audio description</a>.)
<p class="note">In standard audio description, narration is added during existing pauses in dialogue. Usually, this will also require
lowering the volume of background music and other non-informational sounds. (See also <a>extended audio description</a>.)
</p>

<p class="note">Where all of the <a>video</a> information is already provided in existing <a>audio</a>, no additional audio description is necessary.
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<p>One approach is to provide audio description of the video content. The audio description
augments the audio portion of the presentation with the information needed when the
video portion is not available. During existing pauses in dialogue, audio description
provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, and on-screen text
that are important and are not described or spoken in the main sound track.
video portion is not available. Audio description provides information about actions,
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I feel like even this inversion of the existing information is something we should be cautious about.
In the existing text, the starting point is "During existing pauses in dialog...". It emphasizes that someone attempting to provide context for missing important visual information has to assess what openings/opportunities are available. This reflects the reality of how audio descriptions tend to be done, in my experience. The location and duration of pauses in the dialog is the constraint under which AA level remediation (which tackles what can be done in synchronized video) takes place.

There is a slightly different feel when we invert the paragraph, IMO.

characters, scene changes, and on-screen text that are important and are not described
or spoken in the main sound track. Audio description is usually added during existing
pauses in dialogue. In rare cases where the original audio does not provide sufficient
pauses, it may be possible to create them by lowering the volume ("ducking") some of the
existing dialogue, if the need for audio description is deemed to be more important.
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<p>The second approach involves providing all of the information in the synchronized
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<p>The intent of this Success Criterion is to provide people who are blind or visually
impaired access to the visual information in a synchronized media presentation. The
audio description augments the audio portion of the presentation with the information
needed when the video portion is not available. During existing pauses in dialogue,
audio description provides information about actions, characters, scene changes, and
on-screen text that are important and are not described or spoken in the main sound
track.
needed when the video portion is not available. Audio description provides information about actions,
characters, scene changes, and on-screen text that are important and are not described
or spoken in the main sound track. Audio description is usually added during existing
pauses in dialogue. In rare cases where the original audio does not provide sufficient
pauses, it may be possible to create them by lowering the volume ("ducking") some of the
existing dialogue, if the need for audio description is deemed to be more important.
</p>

<div class="note">
<p>This success criterion applies even in cases where the original audio does not
have sufficient pauses, and where no portion of the original audio can be omitted in
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have sufficient pauses, and where no portion of the original audio can be omitted in

favour of an audio description without losing important information. In these cases,
the content will fail this success criterion.
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<div class="note">

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