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Bibliography: Audio description (DX)

See also: Dubbing (DU), subtitling (ST), captioning (CC); alternate formats.

  1. (1997)
    • Packer, Jaclyn; Kirchner, Corinne
    • Who’s Watching? A Profile of the Blind and Visually-Impaired Audience for Television and Video
    • ITC guidance on standards for audio description, May 2000
    • Carlson, M.; B. Gould, M. Lane, K. Roosevelt, R. Ruthel, J. Stankus, J. Krienke, J. Cahill, M. Nocholasen, A. White
    • Descriptive Video Service style manual, September 1990 (8/01, 4/96, 2/94, 7/93, 4/92, 9/90)
    • Version 3.1
  4. (1995)
    • Trimbee, Robert S.
    • AudioVision Canada implementation plan: Television for people who cannot see
    • Date unclear; taken from included cover letter from Robert S. Trimbee dated 1995.09.27
  5. (2002)
    • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
    • Screen Digest report on the implications of digital technology for the film industry, September 2002
    • CC, DX, SL
  6. [Press kit] (1993)
    • Descripive Video Service
  7. Access consultation document
    • BCI
    • DX, SL
    • Irish broadcasting regulator
  8. Access services for digital television: Matching the means to the requirement for audio description and signing
    • Tanton, Nick; Ware, Trevor, Armstrong, Mike
    • SL
    • BBC R&D U.K.
  9. Adding audio description: Does it make a difference? (2001)
    • Schmeidler, Emilie; Kirchner, Corinne
    • Journal of visual impairment and blindness, April 2001
  10. Assessing audio quality for an elderly population (1993)
    • Carmichael, A.; Rabbitt, PMA
    • Deliverable 3, Part 2 of the final report, Audetel pilot phase
  11. Assessment of the effect of audio description on elderly people’s comprehension and memory for a television program (1993)
    • Carmichael, A.; Rabbitt, P.M.A.
    • Deliverable 15, Part 2 of the final report
  12. Audio description for children
    • [No lead author]; RNIB Home Video Service
  13. Audio Description International Conference 2002 Conference Proceedings (2002)
    • Snyder, Joel
    • Conference of 23–24 March 2002
  14. Audio description: The art of talking pictorially (1987)
    • Willmott, Gail
    • Kaleidoscope, Winter/Spring 1987
  15. Blind folks get the TV “picture” in 9 cities (1988)
    • Disability Rag, March/April 1988
  16. Brief for petitioners (2002)
    • Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., et al.
    • Leg
    • On petition for review from the Federal Communications Commission, Nºs 01-1149, 01-1155
  17. Brief of the National Federation of the Blind, petitioner (2002)
    • National Federation of the Blind
    • Leg
    • On petition for review from the Federal Communications Commission, Nºs 01-1149, 01-1155
  18. Code on television access services: Statement by Ofcom (2004)
    • Ofcom
    • DX, Sign, Regulatory
    • Response to consultation comments
  19. Consultation on the draft code on providing television access services
    • Ofcom
    • DX, SL
  20. Evaluating visual information provided by audio description (1996)
    • Peli, Eli; Fine, E.M.; Labianca, A.T.
    • Journal of visual impairment and blindness, September–October 1996
  21. Famous Players introduces Rear Window® captioning an DVS Theatrical℠ descriptive narration system: The first of its kind in Canada, systems to be available for Harry Potter! (2001)
    • Famous Players
    • CC, DX
  22. Famous Players is pleased to announce Rear Window® captioning and Descriptive Video Service® (2001)
    • Famous Players
    • Globe and Mail, 16 November 2001
    • CC, DX
    • Ad
  23. Famous Players, Inc. theatre information for Rear Window® captioning and DVS DVS Theatrical℠ systems
    • Famous Players
    • CC, DX
  24. First sight: The National Broadcast Reading Service story (1997)
    • DX
    • Brochure
  25. Frequently-asked questions: Famous Players’ Rear Window® captioning system and DVS DVS Theatrical℠ system November 14,2001 (2001)
    • Famous Players
    • CC, DX
  26. How to use the DVS DVS Theatrical℠ system
    • WGBH
    • DX
  27. Lights, camera, action: New descriptive service for movie buffs who are blind or visually impaired (2001)
    • CNIB
    • DX
  28. Maintaining a single system. Chapter 15: Accessibility
    • [None]; [House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage]
    • DX
  29. Memorandum: An update: Efforts to establish an international organization in support of AD; August 1996 Association for Theater and Accessibility Conference
    • Audio Description International
  30. Motion Picture Access (MoPix®): Making motion pictures accessible to everyone
    • WGBH
    • CC, DX
    • Brochure
  31. Provision of Access Services: Research Study Conducted for Ofcom (2006)
    • Ofcom
    • DX, SL
  32. Report two: Survey of visually-impaired people’s behaviour and attitudes towards television and their aspirations for audio description (1993)
    • Carmichael, A.; Rabbitt, PMA
    • Deliverable 18, Part 2 of the final report, Audetel pilot phase
  33. Show and tell (2002)
    • Consumer Reports, January 2002
    • Squib about undescribed commercial (though the squib does not use that term) for accessible ATMs
  34. Some characteristics of audio description and the corresponding moving image (1998)
    • Turner, James M.
    • ASIS ’98 Contributed Papers – Information retrieval of non-text documents
  35. Standardisation requirements for access to digital TV and interactive services by disabled people (2003)
    • CENELEC
    • DX, DU, SL, Interface
  36. Technology makes films accessible (2001)
    • Adams, James
    • Globe and Mail, 15 November 2001
    • CC, DX
  37. Television access services literature review (2006)
    • I2 Media; Ofcom
    • DX, SL
  38. The ABCs of DVS
    • Media Access Group at WGBH
    • CC
    • Also mentions Arthur and multilevel captioning
  39. The European Audetel project (1992)
  40. The European Audetel Project newsletter (1993)
    • First impressions; Audetel workstation; speech hardware; Television de Catalunya; Munich Film Festival 1993;
  41. The European Audetel Project newsletter (1994)
    • Belgium; Audetel decoder
  42. The European Audetel Project newsletter (1994)
    • Receiver; three describers explain how they work (Veronika Hyks, James O’Hara, Louise Fryer); RNIB PR; Poland, Belgium, Germany, Russian
  43. The European Audetel Project newsletter (1995)
    • Review (it’s over by this point); BBC, ITV explain recording, transmission; RNIB research, including amount of description
  44. The European Audetel Project newsletter (1996)
    • What next?; couple of conferences
  45. The First Annual Conference on Audio Description: Conference summary (1989)
    • Snyder, Joel
    • Sometime after the conference, held 15–17 June 1989
  46. The language system of audio description: An investigation as a discursive process (2004)
    • Piety, Philip J.
    • Journal of visual impairment and blindness, August 2004
  47. The use of descriptive video in science programming (1992)
    • Kuhn, David
    • Report to the Director, Informal Science Education, National Science Foundation, SGER MDR 92-53039
  48. TIWO: Television in Words: Final report (2005?)
    • Salway, Andrew
  49. Using audio description for indexing moving images (2005?)
    • Turner, James M.; Colinet, Emmanuël
  50. Video service provides narration for the blind (1996)
    • AP
    • Toronto Star, 21 June 1996