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Audio description involves recounting (without interpretation and commentary) what is happening, for example, in a film or a theater play, in dialogues between charac-ters, but it also attempts to describe the space, e.g.: monuments or works of art. Translation of visual content into words, or otherwise, verbal description of visible layers of plays, audiovisual productions, art and entertainment events makes them available to the blind and visually impaired as well as to those with poor eyesight.Audio description has been cultivated in Europe since the 1980s. Since 2006, it has been popularized in Poland too. In the sketch, we refer to the essence of audio description providing an overview of the history and discussing the basic workshop rules as well as its role culture promotion.