Though access to print through braille or computer voice is essential for a blind person hungry for information, so is an articulate human voice describing the visual world, painting or architecture or movies, even ball games. Going to a museum can still be an immense pleasure if the person I'm with is an imaginative, informed talker.
Some friends get too involved to speak.
Art can be a deep, private matter, somehow cheapened by words. In a movie, a friend might suspend her disbelief and that's where my troubles begin. As I feel her attention being totally absorbed by the activity on the screen, I am left to make some sense out of the music, clatter and dialogue. Finally I speak, no, snarl. Her neck and shoulders hurt because I have asked her to sit in the first row from where I can still make out some on-screen movement.