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A Day in the Life of an Audio Describer

Kelly Warren, owner of Mind’s Eye Audio Productions, overviews the process of describing television, film, and video. She defines good description, discusses its complexities, and looks into its future. From Kelly Warren about description, accessibility-vendors

Deaf History

Teachers, parents, and other adults working in some educational capacity with a K–12 student (or students) who is deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind are invited to register for a free DCMP account. Media is available instantly from our website, and can often be mailed to you on DVD. about dcmp, history

Description Timeline Highlights

With the advent of description, people who are blind or visually impaired gained an important tool with which to broaden their understanding and enjoyment of the unique visual nature of films and other visual media. Though a relatively new phenomenon compared to captioning, which established its roots more than 60 years ago, there have been many notable developments in the history of description. about description, history

Described Media Produced by Professionals With Visual Impairments: A Sound Idea

Working with sound as a producer, audio engineer, or voice-over artist seems like a natural fit for a professional who has vision loss. From Rick Boggs about description, accessibility-vendors

Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of History

Overviews recent accomplishments and recognition of Black Deaf people From Benro Ogunyipe about educators, consumers, deaf, history

How Bird Hunting in North Carolina Saved Captioning

Pioneers of captioning about captioning, dcmp, history

Description Key - Background

Adapted from the original "Background of The Description Key," written in 2008 by Kay Alicyn Ferrell and Mary Ann Siller, American Foundation for the Blind. From about description-key

The Equal Access Journey: One Parent's Testimony of How Captioning Benefitted Her Children's Education and Kick-started Her New Career

I am the mother of three children: a college freshman (Kyle) who is profoundly deaf, a teen-aged daughter (Megan) with sloping mild to profound hearing loss, and a hearing son (Keegan) who is finishing the second grade. My parental journey through an inaccessible world—and all the steps therein—began 14 years ago when my nearly five-year-old son was identified as having a hearing loss, was emboldened when Megan was diagnosed with a hearing loss, and continues today, step by step, learning experience by learning experience. From Michelle Rich about parents