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Articles
- Audio Description at Every Performance (by Dr. Joel Snyder)
- Audio Description: Using Your Voice to Bring Images to People Who Are Blind (by Dr. Joel Snyder, July 2023)
- Audio Description in the Twin Cities (about live theatre description)
- DADA: Durham Audio Described Art
- Self Description (by Dr. Joel Snyder)
- Viewpoint: Reviewing in the Dark (by Robert Kingett)
- Why Audio Descriptions Need to Be a Priority for Your Content (g2.com)
Presentations
- "The Activist" (featuring Kim Charlson)
- AD at Every Performance (presentation by Dr. Joel Snyder, February 20'22)
- Seeing Things as They Are: The Audio Describer's Obligation (presention by Dr. Joel Snyder, October 2022)
Podcast Episodes
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- Audio Description Specialist Certification With Kim Charlson & Lolly Lijewski (Outlook on Western Radio, March 18, 2024)
- Tabitha Kenlon & The Audio Description Project (AT Banter, March 6, 2024)
- Love and Self-Care: Nefertiti Matos Olivares’ Path to Happiness (The Blind Chick, February 15, 2024)
- The Power of Descriptive Narration: Nefertiti’s Journey (The Blind Chick, February 8, 2024)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description: Describing What is Unseen (Reid My Mind, June 28, 2023)
- Our 2023 Valentines (NPR Planet Money, February 10, 2023; starts at 19:35)
- A Thousand Words (Twenty Thousand Hertz, October 19, 2022)
- The What, How, and Why of Audio Description (3Play Media Podcast with Dr. Joel Snyder, June 2022)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description: In the Making (Reid My Mind, June 15, 2022)
- Black Art White Voices: A Flipping the Script Prequel (Reid My Mind, June 1, 2022)
- Audio Description Training Retreats (Hindsight is 20/200, May 10, 2022)
- A Conversation with Liz Gutman, Head Audio Description Writer for IDC (That Real Blind Tech Show, April 24, 2022)
- It's All About Audio Description, A Conversation with Eric Wickstrom from IDC (That Real Blind Tech Show, January 25, 2022)
- Subtitles for the Blind (David Pogue, Unsung Science, January 14, 2022)
- Making the Visual Verbal (Dr. Joel Snyder on National Endowment for the Arts, January 2022)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – A Hop Hop Approach (Reid My Mind, September 29, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – Blind Grown & Sexy (Reid My Mind, September 23, 2021 -adult content)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – And the Winner Is… (Reid My Mind, August 11, 2021)
- Audio Description Czar, A Conversation with Carl Richardson (That Real Blind Tech Show, August 4, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description – Going Social (Reid My Mind, July 4, 2021)
- Audio Described National Parks (Hadley, June 25, 2021)
- Voice Arts Awards Presents Audio Description (Bold Blind Beauty, June 4, 2021)
- And The Audio Description Goes to… (NFB, April 23, 2021)
- Inform & Connect Season 2: Roy Samuelson, narrator; Stephen Letnes,composer (AFB, April 19, 2021)
- Do blind people watch movies? A session with audio description all-star Roy Samuelson (Adventure Mind, March 24, 2021)
- In Place of Catastrophe (a seven-part series that "explores transgenerational resilience within a disability justice framework"; March 16, 2021)
- The Blind Social, Audio Description (That Blind Lads Podcast, January 13, 2021)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description Part Three – Moving Beyond Just US (Reid My Mind, November 25, 2020)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description Part Two – Voice Matters (Reid My Mind, November 11, 2020)
- Flipping the Script on Audio Description (Reid My Mind, September 16, 2020)
- Audio Descriptions in Movies for the Blind (Newstalk, August 21, 2020)
- The Importance Of Audio Description For Subtitled Movies (NPR, August 16, 2020)
- Advocates For Deaf And Blind Laud Netflix's New Playback Features (NPR, August 8, 2020)
- “Audio Description with Ray Samuelson” Pushing Limits (KPFA, July 31, 2020)
- Making movies/TV shows accessible to the blind - Interview with Roy Samuelson (JC5 Productions, July 2020)
- Voices in the Entertainment World from a Blindness Perspective (Blind Abilities, June 2020)
- Viewing Audio Description History Through Audio Eyes with Rick Boggs (Reid My Mind, May 2020)
- Don’t Let Audio Description Services Slip! (RNIB, March 2020)
- An Audio Description Extravaganza! Conversation with Voiceover Artist Roy Samuelson, Activating AD and a Bit of a Rant (Life After Blindness, March 2020)
- Audio Description: A Professional Perspective (Part 2 of 2, The Nation's Blind, March 2020)
- Audio Description: The Big Picture (Part 1 of 2, The Nation's Blind, February 2020)
- The Voice of Audio Description – Roy Samuelson Returns to the BA Studio (That Blind Tech Show, February 2020)
- All Things Audio Description (ACB, December 2019)
- Audimance: Transforming Dance and Movement into Sound (Reid My Mind, November 2019)
- Audio Description: More than Movies Television and Theater (Reid My Mind, August 2019)
- Opportunities in the Creation of Audio Description (Reid My Mind, August 2019)
- How Do You Watch Movies If You Can’t See? (Be My Eyes, July 2019; requires Spotify subscription, but you can sign up for free)
- Blind Abilities Super Duper Extra: Spider-Man: Far From Home is Here, And Audio Describer Roy Samuelson Spins His Own Web on Audio Description (ortranscript of the Blind Abilities podcast) (Blind Abilities, June 2019)
- Blind Citizens, In Focus Podcast: An Interview with Audio Narrator Roy Samuelson (June 2019)
- That Blind Tech Show: The Return of Roy! Audio Describer and Voice Artist Roy Samuelson is in the Studio (March 2019)
- The Art of Access with Cheryl Green (Reid My Mind, March 2019)
- On the Mic with Roy Samuelson (Reid My Mind, January 2019)
- Reid My Mind Radio: Black on Audio Description (Reid My Mind, August 2018)
- Reid My Mind Radio: On Black Panther Audio Description - Race, Selection & Time (Reid My Mind, May 2018)
- Twenty Thousand Hertz: Audio Descriptions (February 2017)
Reports
- Origins, Organizations, And Issues In Video Description: Results From In-Depth Interviews With Major Players (Packer, Gutierez, Kirchner, US Dept of Education, 1997; published by permission)
Guidelines
- ARD-Network-Guidelines (Audio description guidelines for German TV; in English)
- The Ultimate Guide to Audio Description (3Play Media)
- FCC Recommendations Accepted from Disability Advisory Committee AD Quality Working Group, October 2020
- Guidelines for Verbal Description (Art Beyond Sight)
- Guidelines for Audio Description of Meetings and Presentations (DCMP)
- Description Key for Educational Media (DCMP)
- The Descriptive Video Production and Presentations Best Practices Guide for Digital Environments (Media Access Canada)
- Guidance on Standards for Audio Description (National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education - AccessIT)
Symbols for Audio Description
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