Use sound proximity/doppler to provide an audio interpretation of visual content and actions
This feature uses sound proximity to interpret the visual content and provide auditory output.
Discussion by Disabilities
Blind people are aided by this feature as they are able to perceive visual content in auditory format.
Similar to blind people, people with low vision use this feature to perceive visual content in auditory format.
Existing Products
- Audio Description Project(link is external)- American Council of the blind
- Audio Description(link is external)- Ai-Media
- Audio Description(link is external)- Starfish Technologies
- Audio/Video Description(link is external)- Vitac
- Audio Guide(link is external)
- Apple Accessibility(link is external)
Related Research and Papers
- Cognitive, physical, sensory, and functional affordances in interaction design(link is external)- Rex Hartson
- Adding Audio Description: Does It Make a Difference?(link is external)- C Kirchner, E Schmeidler
- Accessible presentation of information for people with visual disabilities(link is external)- Christopher Power, Helmut Jürgensen
- How Blind People Interact with Visual Content on Social Networking Services(link is external)- Violeta Voykinska, Shiri Azenkot, Shaomei Wu, Gilly Leshed
- Seeing to hear better: evidence for early audio-visual interactions in speech identification(link is external)- Jean-Luc Schwartz, Frédéric Berthommier , Christophe Savariaux
- Hearsay: enabling audio browsing on hypertext content(link is external)- I. V. Ramakrishnan, Amanda Stent, Guizhen Yang