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Re: Guidance on Audio Description

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From: Lovely, Brian (CONT)
Date: May 8, 2017 7:45AM

Captioning captures what is said. Audio descriptions capture what is done. So if you have a talking head, captioning is sufficient, because the audio description would consist of "she's still just sitting there". However, you will need an audio description whenever anything actually happens: "laughing child releases balloon and watches it rise into the sky".