The CAAT office proudly presents “Prime Time,” a series of in-person webinars addressing accessibility and disability in academia, held once a month in the Siek Campus Center, room 150. These webinars are a great opportunity to have in-depth discussions with your peers about your experience and daily interaction with accessibility.
This will be a purr-fect webinar to attend, all you need to do is sign up.
Audio Description: Access for Students Who are Blind
Date: Monday, May 5
Time: 9 am to 10:30 am
Location: Siek Campus Center, Room 150
Audio Description is a kind of literary art form. It’s a type of poetry–a haiku. It provides a verbal version of the visual the visual is made verbal, and aural, and oral. Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative, we convey the visual image that is not fully accessible to a segment of the population—new estimates by the American Foundation for the Blind now put that number at over 32 million Americans alone who are blind or have difficulty seeing even with correction—and not fully realized by the rest of us sighted folks who see but who may not observe. This presentation will offer an overview of the fundamentals of audio description and how they can be applied in providing more meaningful access to university activities: lectures, class presentations, performing and visual arts events and media–film and video.