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The American Council of the Blind (ACB) and its Audio Description Project (ADP) broadcast the 6th Annual Audio Description Awards Gala on Thursday, November 12, 2026. It was a star-studded celebration honoring excellence and innovation in audio description (AD) across genres and platforms. The…
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) and its Audio Description Project (ADP) invite audiences to experience the 6th Annual Audio Description Awards Gala, airing Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. ET — a star-studded celebration honoring excellence and innovation in audio description…
Thanks to the generous commitment of Bridge Multimedia and Dicapta, the 2026 Audio Description Awards Gala is multilingual. Bridge is providing captions and American Sign Language interpretation, while Dicapta is creating a full Spanish translation. With English audio description by Audio…
Reprinted from ACB's Dots & Dashes, issued November 2, 2026.We’re proud to announce that on Wednesday, October 28th, ACB received the 2026 Navigator Award from the American Printing House for the Blind (APH)!The Navigator Award recognizes collaborative efforts to remove barriers and create…
In response to the high volume of audio description consumer feedback, the Audio Description Project decided to create a survey that could get more formal data to share with the AD community and providers.The ADP completed the survey design in the spring of 2026. We then partnered with Professor…
The American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project (ADP) and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) are co-sponsoring the Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE), an essay contest for young people ages 7 to 21 who are on the blindness spectrum. Students choose…