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# describesVideoForAccessibility

A media characteristic that indicates the media includes audible content that describes the visual portion of the presentation.

```
static let describesVideoForAccessibility: AVMediaCharacteristic
```

## Discussion

It’s possible for a legible media option to include both transcriptions of spoken dialog and descriptions of music and sound effects.

The value of this characteristic is `public.accessibility.describes-video`.

For QuickTime movies and `.m4v` files, a media option has this characteristic only if the media’s author tags it that way.

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