Use a short and to-the-point title, and short, punchy, descriptive sentences in your video description.
The problem, however, is that not many shows have video description.
Public television has been active in the video description effort for more than a decade.
The video description narrator explains: "In a cartoon, words float through clouds.
According to the video, description the whale dies of natural causes.
"If this raises awareness of the creativity and value of video description at all, that's one good thing," she said.
The commission will model its video description rules on guidelines governing closed-captioning technology for the hearing impaired.
The commission modeled its video description rules on guidelines governing closed-captioning technology for the hearing impaired.
Getting the F.C.C. to mandate even today's paltry amount of video description took more than two decades.
It's not a stretch to imagine video description occupying a similar niche, allowing multitaskers to listen to TV, rather than watch it, while their eyes are otherwise occupied.
Blind advocates of video description say the narration helps bridge what they can hear and what many others have always seen.
