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Accessibility
DCMP Includes AI Scene Description Tool for Students with Visual Disabilities
The federally funded Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) has developed an "AI Scene Description Tool" add-on to its video player to increase accessibility to video content for blind students and those with a low vision disability. The tool is live and is currently in beta testing.
The tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to "describe the visual elements of any frame within a paused video," the organization said.
This tool, a supplement to the program rather than a replacement ("DCMP will continue to produce audio description with talented writers and voicers," the organization said) creates a secondary audio track that describes visual information in an educational video. The student presses the "AI Scene Description" button to pause a video and ask detailed questions of the AI. Any paused scene is described via text-to-speech and transcribed.
This is especially helpful when there is "’quiet time’ in a video, where the [...]