Described Programming Oriented Toward Children

This page covers audio described programming oriented toward children under 13.  Updated May 23, 2022.

For DVDs and Blu-ray discs, parents seeking guidance on appropriate audio described offerings for their children should consult our DVDs listing and choose the "Kids' DVDs (G/ PG)" option. 

Our Television page will guide you to children's offerings on Saturday mornings on various networks.  You'll be mostly on your own to find programming on PBS, since they refuse to list which shows they describe; but we try to help with this Partial List of Audio Described Shows on PBS.

Today, there are over 1800 described titles on Netflix, with a commitment by Netflix to audio describe every new original series they create.  Regarding their commitment to audio description for children, approximately a third of Netflix audio described shows are oriented to children under 13.

As of May 2023, within that one-third, Netflix offers 425+ programs in the Kids & Family genre, and over 400 animated programs age-appropriate for children under 13, many of them for ages 0-6.  Some are series, some are movies.  To aid parents in selecting appropriate programming, we are including the Netflix-suggested ratings for all programs in our own listing.  Visit our Netflix page and use the By Genre and By Rating options to find age-appropriate shows along with their ratings.

Disney+ is another streaming service where you will find nearly 1200 age-appropriate titles described.  (In 2022, they introduced some adult titles to the service, so that number is now a little high.) 

You will also find described programming on each of the other streaming services to a lesser degree than Netflix and Disney+.  On each streaming services' page of described titles, you can click the "By Rating" button to see programming appropriate for your child.  Max seems to have the most.

New in 2021 is a service called Imagination Videobooks, which has added audio description to both audio- and video-books.  We do not list their offerings separately on this website, so be sure to check out their rapidly expanding catalog, which is created in conjunction with the Described Captioning and Media Center.