In a blog post, Netflix on Friday announced it’s been honored for its work in creating audio descriptions for its content.
The Bay Area-based streaming giant shared news it has been honored with the People’s Choice Awards at this year’s Audio Description Awards Gala for Best Audio Description. Netflix won in the film category for Happy Gilmore 2 and in the series category for Season 5 of Stranger Things. The company thanked the American Council of the Blind, along with Netflix teams, Descriptive Video Works, and International Digital Centre, for the “incredible recognition.”
“Audio description (AD) is a creative craft. Every choice, from what to describe to how to say it, shapes how blind and low-vision members experience a story,” Netflix said in its announcement. “DVW and IDC’s writers and narrators have worked alongside our Content Localization team for years to build that craft across our catalog, matching tone and timing scene by scene so every member can experience the story the way it’s meant to be felt.”
According to Netflix, over 75,000 hours of audio-described content is available on the platform as of 2026, which is enough to “describe over 40,000 feature-length films, counting each language separately.” Moreover, the company says it has plans to “extend that reach” and touted a new app called Originator Studio, an authoring tool built with full support for screen readers such that “blind and low-vision professionals can fully participate in AD workflows.”
