Tag: Audio Description

  • Blind-Centered Audio Description Chat Watch and Listen Party

    Listen to this post: Thomas Reid, Nefertiti Matos Olivares, and I have been co-hosting a live conversation and panel series called Blind-Centered Audio Description Chats since December, 2022. We started out on a social media platform that had a thing called Spaces, and we later tried out a few other spots like LinkedIn and Clubhouse.…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 47: Seahorse

    Listen to this post: (Podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.) A few years ago, I went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. Here’s a yellow boxfish I found there in a temporary display. I just know this one is playing hide and seek with me. But then? After the boxfish? I…

  • 36th Annual Superfest Disability Film Festival

    Listen to this post: Celebrate! If there’s anything I regret around Superfest it’s that I don’t blog about how much I love the festival all year long. This year’s the 36th festival, and as always, it’s a great lineup of Deaf and disability films from nearly a dozen different countries representing some of the true…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 38: May be image of cup

    Listen to this post: (podcast audio is at the bottom of the page.) Lately, there’s a growing push to make accessibility more creative, and I think it’s just rad! In fact, some of the major players at FWD-Doc (Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities) are presenting at this year’s SXSW a panel called Creativity Enhanced: Documentary Tools…

  • Audio Description in the Making at AIM Lab

    Listen to this post: Audio Description is art. There. I said it! I’m in the camp of describers whose end goal is not legal compliance or the mythical, and frankly impossible, “accessible for everyone” status. The camp I’m in is interested in elevating an artwork by adding description. “Accessible” isn’t a very delightful sounding goal…