RE: Guidelines for describing pictures and video

Describing visual images:
Adam Alonzo, "A Picture Is Worth 300 Words: Writing Visual Descriptions
for an Art Museum Web Site," CSUN 2001, at
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2001/proceedings/0031alonzo.htm.  Very
useful, clear material; guidelines can be adapted to other kinds of
visual images.
 
Audio description:
Audio Description International, at http://www.adinternational.org.  The
Web site provides lots of good information and resources for audio
description/descriptive video, and an email list for people on it.
 
Joe Clark's book, Building Accessible Web Sites, has some good material
on audio description, as does Maximum Accessibility, which I co-authored
with Sharron Rush.
 
I'll find some more stuff, but these should get things started.
 
John
 
 
 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 2:18 pm
To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Guidelines for describing pictures and video



Do we have a listing of documents with techniques or guidance on how to
describe pictures (long descriptions) and video (audio descriptions)?

 

-          do we have a list of these docs/guidelines in techniques?

-          If not should we?

-          If so - which ones are people aware of?

 

thanks

 


Gregg

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