ReadSpeaker and scribit.pro make video fully accessible, together

Since 23 September 2020, every website of every Dutch public and semi public body, and therefore every online video on it, has had to meet the legal accessibility requirements (see the Dutch guidance on sound and video (opens in a new tab)). This means that, alongside subtitles, every video also needs an audio description and a text alternative.

With that support in place, the video is free of barriers. Everyone, including someone with a visual or hearing impairment, will be better able to follow it.

Everyone knows subtitles, but what exactly is audio description?

Audio description is a spoken description of what is happening on screen at the moments when nobody is speaking. It lets people who are blind or partially sighted follow exactly what is going on in the video.

The text alternative is a properly written text that describes everything there is to see and hear in the video. It helps people who do not watch the video but do want to know what information it gives. In practice it is a combination of the audio description and the subtitles, in the order of the video.

You do this for the more than 1.7 million people in the Netherlands who need support to watch a video.

ReadSpeaker and scribit.pro, together

ReadSpeaker and scribit.pro (opens in a new tab) have joined forces to make videos fully accessible. With scribit.pro you meet the applicable requirements completely, in one go. The audio description is generated by the text to speech technology of ReadSpeaker.

Do it yourself. With this intuitive software you can get going straight away, and there is an online academy with tutorials. Paste the link of a YouTube video into the editor, create the audio description and the subtitles, and publish them on your website.

Or let scribit.pro do it. Hand the job to professionals and they will make your videos fully accessible in no time. Send the link to the video and we will deliver exactly what you need for the best possible accessibility.