YouDescribe 4+

I heard about this app, and it sounds really interesting. The only problem is, whenever I try to open it, it keeps crashing. I hope this is fixed very soon.

This app has amazing potential, and it works well. My only problem is that when a video is playing and a description track is active, the audio from the video either gets cut off or does not play at all. For example, when I played the latest described video to try it out, the intro music played for about 0.5 seconds before being cut off instead of simply fading out like the "audio ducking" menu item suggests. This happens whether the setting is turned on or off. I hope this is fixed!

This app is working well for me, but I'm having a few minor issues. The first issue I'm having is that when I'm in the search tab, I can't go back so for example, if I select trailers, and then I decide that I want to switch from trailers to funny videos, I can't do that unless I Close and open the app. Also, it isn't very clear that you have to tap on the search heading in order to type in your own text. It isn't very clear that that is a text box. I was searching for a video that I wanted to get described and I know it is on YouTube, but it wasn't coming up.

Also, I wish I could leave more specific feedback. I was watching a video about three ways to prepare watermelon, and I thought the description was mostly good, but one thing I wanted to add is that they describe her was reading everything that was on the video, but I could hear her stirring and boiling, so I know that there were things happening in the video as well. For example, she would read the recipe, but from what I could hear in the background, I think that you could also see someone making the recipe on the video, but I'm not sure. I wanted to say somehow but if you could actually see the person making the recipes, I wanted some description of that as well, But there was no way for me to say that.

Other than those minor problems I'm having, I really like it. I know the volunteers are doing it, but I think the descriptions I have experience so far are relatively good. I hope there will be a way to add it to Livestreams on YouTube as well, or if you want to watch something like the Apple event described. This app really does fill a necessary gap because YouTube videos do not have audio description, and there is normally no way to get it because they are just made by random people. Even on the cooking videos where they read the recipe, it would really help to have description to know things like what did the cookies look like? Were they flat or were they puffy? If I was looking for a recipe for thin, black cookies, then I could know whether that one would be good. Or what did the dough look like? What is the person trying to show me? I was watching chef support with Gordon Ramsay where he answers questions from Twitter, and he was showing all sorts of different things from different ways to chop garlic and all sorts of things, but it wasn't described so I got nothing out of it. I would also like to get advertisements and movie previews with descriptions because I can never understand what is going on in those. I'm really glad to have this app because I feel very excluded a lot. I do hope you will advertise more so that we can get A lot of sighted volunteers to do more videos, and if the video is longer, I would also be fine if there was a way for different people to describe one section. I don't know if I will ever get the video that I want because it is a documentary, and everything is in a foreign language so it has subtitles, and then you have to know what is happening. There is no way I can watch it at all without description. Whoever, a single volunteer who might not have even done it before might be daunted by the difficult task of my documentary. YouTube also has some TV shows and made-for-TV movies that are longer.