Audio Description

What is Audio Description?

Audio Description (AD) is the practice of verbally describing key visual elements of various art forms such as artwork and exhibits, films and TV shows, and live performances etc. for blind and low vision audiences.

Audio Description can be embedded as an audio track in a video or performed alongside a live event.

Audio Description is a service available to students and employees with accommodations.

The DRC is here to help guide you! Take a look at the options below and email accesstext@uic.edu if you have any questions.

I Am An Audio Describer

This video introduces viewers to Victor Cole, a Chicago-based audio describer and the process of live audio description.

Citations

Emily Watlington with Victor Cole. (2020, September 16). Audio Description, Described. VoCA Journal. https://journal.voca.network/audio-description-described/.

Federeal Communications Commissions. (2026, January 16). Audio Description. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/audio-description.