The ADLAB project: Audio Description for the Blind

ADLAB (Audio description: lifelong access for the blind) is a now completed three-year (2011-2014) project financed by the European Union under the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) . The project’s main aim was to create a series of reliable guidelines - usable throughout Europe - for the practice of audiodescription (AD): namely the insertion of short verbal descriptions illustrating the essential visual elements of an audiovisual product (including films, television programmes, documentaries, advertisements, but also such audiovisual phenomena as art galleries, museums, dance performances, city tours, live events, etc.) for the blind and visually impaired community.