What Does Descriptive Video Service (DVS) Mean?
The Descriptive Video Service (DVS) is a service pioneered in the 1990s that helps provide more video information for blind or visually impaired viewers. Descriptive Video Service does more to help visually disabled individuals to understand what is happening on the screen in movies and television shows by providing narration.
Techopedia Explains Descriptive Video Service (DVS)
Using professional narrators and script writers, Descriptive Video Service researches what is going on in a video broadcast, in order to generate narratives that can help blind or visually impaired people to understand more about the video in question. Descriptive Video Service narratives can describe things like the clothes that actors and actresses are wearing, as well as gestures and facial expressions. Some narratives also describe things like scene changes, or read text that appears on screen.
