Audio description as an adjustment for blind and visually impaired)

In the master thesis we introduced an audio description as one of the possibilities to make cultural contents closer to people with visual impairment. The objective was to analyse the preparation of the audio description for a theatre performance wherewith we wanted to show the preparation of an audio description. In the theoretical part there was presented the audio description development, a fairly new way of accessing the culture and entertainment. Furthermore, we explored the area of audio description in Slovenia. The results have revealed that adapted contents do not meet the standards at all in comparison to other countries in Western Europe. The following step was to present our instructions on how to prepare an audio description. Since the method of audio description can be used in different areas we divided the areas of preparing audio description to museum and gallery collections, to movie and television area and to the area of stage art. In this master thesis we presented the production of audio description for a theatre performance. The decision to create this particular theatre performance was due to the fact that in Slovenia there are only few successful projects in the area of theatre performance, least of all, compared to other stage arts mentioned before. The aim of this research was to obtain some information about the procedure of the audio description preparation. The most relevant data was the information about the preparation time frame, the number of experts and other people that collaborated in the audio description preparation and also about the technical side of an execution. The execution of the audio description presented in this master thesis has not been realized yet due to inappropriate technical equipment. We hope that this project will be carried out in the near future. In this master thesis a qualitative research approach was used which represents the introduction or better yet the starting point for further research of audio description and it can be helpful to those who will work actively on audio description further more