YouDescribe

A free web platform operated by the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute that enables volunteers to crowdsource audio descriptions for YouTube videos. Viewers can request a video be described and sighted volunteers record and align AD tracks synchronised with the original playback. YouDescribe has been a key source of community-generated AD in the absence of publisher-provided descriptions and has been extended with AI-generated suggestions that BLV viewers can rank. Widely cited in accessible-media research as a reference point for community-driven AD production.