MAC starts publishing best practices guide for descriptive video

TORONTO - Media Access Canada said today it has published the first chapter in its Accessible Content Best Practices Guide for Digital Environments. The descriptive video production and presentation best practices guide identifies and explains the many variables involved in describing a television program or movie. The remaining six chapters will be published over the next two years. The guide was developed “after a four-month international literature review establishing the lack of an open source best practices guide for descriptive video as well as an almost complete absence of work on accessible content for digital environments,” says the group’s release....