Audio Description: Programmatic Accessibility as Inclusive Design
summary
Argues that audio description is an inclusive design practice, not an add-on, and shows concrete models: rehearsals-attended AD at Arena Stage where a describer integrates with designers and performances and attendance tripled; AD recorded and delivered via infrared/FM for every show; creative AD embedded in content — a narrator in Odd Job Jack, Hamlet written in iambic pentameter, and Stevie Wonder’s music video with voiced AD — all demonstrating viability. Notes stark statistic 70% unemployment among blind Americans and frames AD as practical cultural access.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Inclusive Design 24 intro
- 1:02What is audio description
- 4:22Audio description in film
- 13:54Accessibility in programming
- 16:02Audio description as art
- 18:57Audio description in live shows
- 28:45Universal design in video
- 38:56Disability employment & culture
- 40:40Audio description resources
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