ACB Focus: Audio Description
American Council of the Blind, Inc.

20210719 - Audio description at Amazon

Sponsored by Amazon

August 17, 2021

~~Audio Description at Amazon: Over the last few years, Amazon has made great strides in expanding the availability of audio description, now offering more titles with AD than any other streaming service. This session from  Amazon experts from Device Accessibility and Prime Video discussed how they have scaled up audio-description production, and the many advantages they anticipate for blind or visually impaired customers.

  • Recorded during the 2021 ACB National Convention on July 19 2021~~

20210717 - Audio description in museums

Sponsored by ADP

August 17, 2021

~~ADP Audio Description in Museums: This panel of leading museum access professionals’ profiled various ways audio description is used in museum settings, and how each museum has coped with providing description services during a pandemic. Moderator: Joel Snyder, PhD, Founder and Senior Consultant, ACB Audio Description Project, Takoma Park, MD Panelists •: Beth Ziebarth, Director, Accessibility Services, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC • Jessica Doonan, Manager, Accessibility, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA • Charlotte Martin, Senior Manager, Access Initiatives, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY • Robert Bready, Vice President for Operations, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, CO

  • Recorded during the 2021 ACB National Convention on July 17 2021~~

Audio Description Podcast Teaser

ACB Focus Podcast Series

June 27, 2021
Welcome to the Audio Description Track of the ACB Focus Podcast Series.