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Re: Examples of Audio-Description

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From: Emily Ogle
Date: Jun 15, 2018 1:06PM

Elsevier, a medical publishing company, has an animation collection with growing audio description collection as well. Ted Gies may be able to provide some examples, <EMAIL REMOVED> .

Additionally, DCMP's description key is structured for instructional description. Www.dcmp.org.

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 11:04 AM, Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E] < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Colleagues,
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> Several of our - the National Institutes of Health's - organizations are working on improving their multimedia accessibility, specifically around audio-descriptions. We've been finding a great many examples of videos and television shows with AD, but no examples of instructional or informational videos, multimedia, television programs, or films.
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> We are currently researching http://www.acb.org/adp/streaming.html and http://www.acb.org/adp/ad.html. Netflix apparently has a list of programs which have AD (http://www.netflix.com/browse/audio-description) but it's password protected – and I don't know if their catalog/catalogue has programs of the type we're seeking to study.
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> Any links to AD examples of informational, instructional, documentary, non ‘entertainment'-type programs would be greatly appreciated!
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> Gary
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