ACB Focus: Audio Description

20230623 1300 ACVREP Certified Audio Description Specialist (CAUDES) Update Originally Broadcasted June 23, 2023, on ACB Media 4   Presenters provided background details and an update on the progress of the work to create a certification process for audio description professionals. Moderator: Kim Charlson, Chair, ACVREP Certification Subject Matter Expert Committee, Watertown, MA   Edited By:  Dou...

20230622 1430 More from the Streaming Services Originally Broadcasted June 22, 2023, on ACB Media 3   **          In this double session and back by popular demand, representatives from major streaming services discussed how their organizations make their programming accessible now and what they've got planned. Moderator: Carl Richardson, Co-Chair, ACB Audio Description Project, Brighton, MA Invit...

20230624 1000 Audio Description Research Originally Broadcasted June 24, 2023, on ACB Media 5   The academic community has embraced audio description (AD) as a form of audiovisual translation and within other disciplines, particularly in countries outside the U.S. Attendees joined us to learn the latest in efforts to examine AD through survey-based research as well as lessons learned from professi...

20220706 Audio Description Award Winners Originally Aired July 6, 2022, on ACB Media   Participants got to know more about the 2022 Audio Description Project Award Winner.   Edited By:  Douglas Hunsinger

20220703 A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer - Describer Originally Aired July 3, 2022, on ACB Media   Attendees joined Chris Snyder as he took participants through a workday for a blind AD professional. Participants got to hear what it's like to QC a script, voice, edit and mix a program, and asked questions afterwards. This was a program that the curious and the aspiring AD professionals did...

20220703 3D Audio Excursion Originally Aired July 3, 2022, on ACB Media   **        Back by popular demand, come with Chris Snyder as he takes you on another 3D audio excursion to places real and fantastic. Put on your headphones, sit back and journey with us as we go from the ordinary to the unbelievable. We'd tell you what to expect, but where would be the fun in that? Life is an adventure, and...

20220625 Self-Description: Too Much or Just Enough - Blind Community Perspectives Originally Aired June 25, 2022, on ACB Media Sponsored: Audio Description Project Edited By: Michael Moran

~~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...

~~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 vi...

~~Audio Description in the Performing Arts: This panel of leading theater access professionals highlighted various ways audio description has been provided in performing arts venues, and how each has evolved to provide virtual description services during a pandemic. Moderator: Joel Snyder, PhD, Founder and Senior Consultant, ACB Audio Description Project, Takoma Park, MD Panelists: ♦ Brenna Nicely...

~~Diversity: Describing Race, Skin Color, Ethnicity, Gender, and Disability within Contemporary Audio Description: Attendees heard a direct and thoughtful discussion by a panel of audio description experts on the importance of diversity within the field, how to describe in today’s diverse world, and reflected on what consumers want to hear in their descriptions. Moderator: Kim Charlson, Audio Desc...

~~Audio Description Project Website Overview and Update ( acb.org/adp): The number of audio-described videos available has increased dramatically in the past year to the 6,000-plus range. The ADP website is the place to find pointers to them all. The presentation covered how you can best use the website to find what interests you and how to access description resources. Presenter ♥: Fred Brack, AD...

~~Podcasts Related to Audio Description: Attendees met the hosts of five podcasts featuring audio description, and learn how each got started, what they cover, and their plans for the future.  Moderator: Kim Charlson, Co-Chair, Audio Description Project, Watertown, MA Podcasts include: 1. Picture This: A Podcast on All Aspects of Audio Description Co-Hosts: Brian Charlson, Watertown, MA; Carl Rich...

~~Audio Description in the Outdoors: National Park Service, the UniDescription Project, and the UniD App: This session featured the National Park Service's work to bring audio description and increased access into park settings and highlighted the NPS's collaboration with the University of Hawaii's UniDescription Project to use its UniD app in U.S. and Canadian parks. Moderator: Jo Lynn Bailey-Pag...

ACB's Clark and Kim talk with Para athletes and preview the 2021 Tokyo summer Olympics Recorded during the ACB national convention on July 23 2021

~~Meet the Author: Attendees met Judy Dixon, Writer, Arlington, VA:  Judy has just authored Audio Description: What it is, Where to Find it, and how to Use it, published by National Braille Press. Attendees learned about how she came to write this book, do her research, and asked her questions. Sponsored by: LUA, BRL, and ADP Recorded during the 2021 ACB National Convention on July 21 2021~~

~~BPI Audio Description: Dragging the Boys of Audio Description Behind the Curtain: Attendees joined BPI Board Member Chris Snyder as he welcomed Roy Samuelson, audio description narrator, Los Angeles, CA, JJ Hunt and Byron Lee as they share behind the scenes stories and walked us through the art of creating audio description. Recorded during the 2021 ACB National Convention on July 21 2021~~

~~An Evening with ACB: Audio Description and Streaming Services: This industry panel featured representatives from major streaming services to discuss their product’s, programming, services, and offerings. Moderator: Carl Richardson, Co-Chair, ACB Audio Description Project, Brighton, MA Panelists: ♣ Melanie Goodman, Lead Digital Supply Chain Specialist, HULU, Agoura Hills, CA ♣ Martha Heller, Vice...

Welcome to the Audio Description Track of the ACB Focus Podcast Series.