Making videos Accessible with YouDescribe
Channel: Cyrus
Date: 2022-05-16

This training will cover how to use YouDescribe to create your own audio descriptions for YouTube videos. Audio descriptions are required if you're sharing videos with students with impaired/low vision, but they also benefit new language learners.

With YouDescribe, anyone can add audio descriptions to videos uploaded on YouTube. Choose a video, pause it to insert brief descriptions, and tell your students what you see! When viewed with YouDescribe, your voice is inserted into those spots in the video. Viewers can choose to listen to the descriptions inline (while the video continues to play) or in extended mode (the video stops while the action is described).

Resources:

Getting Started with YouDescribe: Audio Description Basics:
https://youtu.be/w7mFsvCWvso 

Inline Description or Extended Description?
https://youtu.be/3gPuzzZzGf0 

Cyrus demo:
https://youtu.be/v7vHTLJXV_I 

PowerThesaurus.org

CSUN info Audio descriptions:
https://www.csun.edu/sites/default/files/videoa11y.pdf