Additional Resources

Description Tutorial Videos
Brief Dos and Don'ts on creating your own video descriptions. Produced by Dicapta for the VDRDC.

VDRDC YouTube Channel
Videos about the VDRDC, guidelines and tips on creating your own video descriptions, and more.

YouDescribe Free web-based tool that allows anyone to record descriptions of YouTube videos and/or play previously described YouTube videos. Developed by the VDRDC.
CapScribe Open: Free Mac-based video editor for captioning and description developed by Inclusive Media and Design.
MAGpie: Media Access Generator is the original free caption and audio-description authoring tool for making multimedia accessible to persons with sensory disabilities, developed by NCAM, the National Center for Accessible Media.
Livedescribe: Video description software designed, prototyped and developed at The Center for Learning Technology by developer Carmen Branje.

The ACB Audio Description Project's Services List: List of individual, organization, and corporate services in the USA that are involved with video description.

DCMP Video Description Services List: Listing and contact information for video description vendors inside and outside the United States.

Audio Description Associates: Video description of television/film, museum exhibitions, theater and a variety of events.
Audio Eyes
Video description and captioning for virtually any media format in multiple languages.
CaptionMax: Video description and captioning for television, webcast, and DVD.
Dicapta: Video description and captioning in English and Spanish.
Inclusive Media and Design: Video description and captioning for web-based videos.
Media Access Group at WGBH: Video description for the web, DVD, live programs, digital tv, and feature films.
The Washington Ear: Video description for films, videos, Imax films, museums, and live theater.