Principles of creating audio description

Abstract

According to the 2014 World Health Organization report “Visual Impairments and Blindness”, about 285 million people worldwide currently suffer from visual impairments, of which 39 million are affected by blindness and 246 million have reduced vision. About 90% of people with visual impairments live in low-income countries. 82% of blind people are in the age group of 50 years and older. At the same time, 80% of all cases of visual impairment can be prevented or cured. There are no exact statistics, since the population census indicates disability and degree, without specifying it. The All-Russian Society for the Blind has 270 thousand members. In total, according to estimates of those who deal with this problem, there are about a million blind people. Most of them, according to the statistics are capable people. The relevance of this topic is due to the lack of awareness of the population about the existence of audio descriptions, the insufficient number of works aimed at eliminating illiteracy in the creation of high-quality audio descriptions. In addition, there is a lack of research devoted to creating a single logical and optimal classification of the main difficulties, which will explain and prevent the causes of their occurrence. In this paper, we consider the main difficulties faced by an audio descriptor may occur when creating an audio description, and possible ways to overcome them are analyzed. These statistics indicate that the need to create an audio description is currently an extremely relevant topic.