The service includes the use of the equipment, the describer's work during performance, and program notes transmitted before the performance and during intermission. Through our network of contacts within the blind and visually impaired community and local radio reading services, we can also help spread information about events being described. We also can provide a nationally-recognized Audio Description logo for use in advertising and on promotional materials. Audio Description services are intended to enhance the understanding of and access to visual information primarily for but not limited to people who are blind or have low vision. Audio Description International is an organization created to promote Audio Description services in various settings through shared information and referral, education, advocacy, and fostering the implementation and development of Audio Description.
Further information is available from the list manager.
Anyone who is interested sharing information about Audio Description or exploring ways of making performances and cultural events accessible. However, a listserve discussion group is, by nature, itself autocratic, in that the list owner is the final authority for the group's basic ground rules. Folks who disagree are quite free to start their own lists and moderate those lists in whatever way they want. Subscribers who are unfamiliar with listserve groups may want to look over Ms. Rinaldi's very sound advice.