Two Perspectives on Audio Description

Larry Gillick (DOI.gov), Scott Horvath (USGS.gov) & Paul Tsao (Fig Leaf)

With the revision in accessibility requirements, audio description has become an important challenge for federal websites to meet. Divergent efforts within the U.S. Department of the Interior have led to a pair of technology solutions and a wealth of choices for site managers and content creators to use, to meet requirements and properly serve the public.

DOI.gov uses a Video.js solution. USGS.gov uses OzPlayer. Both work within their respective Drupal systems. Both face the next hurdle of crafting audio descriptions for video productions.

We will demo our working solutions, point to shared code, and describe our solutions for creation of 508-conformant content.