Teaching · Special Education

Will the description fit before the next line of dialogue.

Enter each pause and the description for it. At your narrator’s pace, the summary shows which descriptions fit, which run over and by how many words.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The timing plan

One record per video. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Every description checked against its pause, with seconds over, words to cut, totals, and whether extended description is needed.
Who it is for
Teachers, accessibility coordinators, media specialists and teachers of students with visual impairments.
Format
Browser planner. One saved record per video; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of pauses; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
words that fit the quiet
Drawn for this page. Standard audio description has to fit the pauses already in the soundtrack.

How to use it

  1. Time your narrator reading a 100-word sample, and enter words a minute.
  2. Watch the video and note each pause in the dialogue, start and end.
  3. Write the description for each pause: what a viewer who cannot see needs, in the order it appears.
  4. Cut the descriptions that run over, or plan extended description.
  5. Record, then watch it once with the screen off.

Plan a video

What the planner covers

Why it matters

Students who are blind or have low vision miss what a video shows but does not say. WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.2.5 (level AA) calls for audio description of prerecorded video; 1.2.7 (level AAA) covers extended description, where the video pauses for it.

Writing descriptions

Describe what is needed to follow the lesson: text on screen, diagrams, actions, who is speaking. Use the present tense, name things the way the lesson does, and do not explain what the viewer should conclude.

What it is not

The planner checks timing. It does not record narration or edit video, and a description that fits can still be unclear; test it with a listener.

Sources

  1. W3C. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2: success criteria 1.2.3, 1.2.5 and 1.2.7.
  2. Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP). Description Key: guidelines for describing educational media.
  3. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Description of Visual Information (Making Audio and Video Media Accessible).
  4. U.S. Department of Justice. Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities, 28 CFR Part 35, Subpart H (2024): WCAG 2.1 AA.

The example video plan is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.