The need to improve the practice of AD – namely the insertion of short verbal descriptions illustrating the essential visual elements of an audiovisual product for the blind and visually impaired community – and to make more and more audiovisual products available to sensorially disabled people is ever more urgent due to the significant number of people in Europe registered as blind or described as having low vision. Thanks to the joint contribution of eight partners from six European countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Poland and Germany) the project aims at identifying the present inconsistencies in AD crafting methods and provision policies at European level. A manual was prepared with some strategies for the audio description in different context provided in an accessible electronic format (eBook). On the basis of this manual, the IPLEIRIA developed a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) in PT and EN versions. Keywords: audio description, visual disability, accessibility.
