I write communications, instructional toolkits, research plans, exhibits and educational content.
I also provide audio description for the visually impaired services (both pre-recorded and live).
To meet growing accessibility requirements for multimedia and instructional design, I recently trained in audio description for the visually impaired at The American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Institute.
- Blog Post on the American Foundation for the Blind website: Hijinks Ensue: Audio Describing a Live Screening of Hitchcock’s “The Trouble With Harry”
- Online Information Resource (OIR) group project as part of my studies at Kent State University’s School of Library & Information Science: Accessible Computing.
- Recent live audio description for film screenings (2013): Accessible Arts of Central Ohio (CAPA / The Trouble With Harry; NY ReelAbilities Film Festival / Aphasia)
What is Audio Description?
“Audio Description involves the accessibility of the visual images of theater, television, movies, and other art forms for people who are blind, have low vision, or who are otherwise visually impaired. It is a narration service (provided at no additional charge to the patron) that attempts to describe what the sighted person takes for granted – those images that a person who is blind or visually impaired formerly could only experience through the whispered asides from a sighted companion. In theaters, in museums, and accompanying television, film, and video presentations, Audio Description is commentary and narration which guides the listener through the presentation with concise, objective descriptions of new scenes, settings, costumes, body language, and “sight gags,” all slipped in between portions of dialogue or songs.” – American Council for the Blind Audio Description Project