2022 Audio Description Project Conference

Audio Description Project Conference Schedule
2022 ACB National Convention
All sessions pertaining to Audio Description are listed.

Session 1: (ADP)

Thursday, June 23
1:00 to 2:15 PM CDT
Panel Presentation: Audio Description, “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Blind Consultants, Voiceover Talent, and Production Professionals Involved in Creating AD
Moderator: Chris Snyder, Executive Producer/Head, Audio Production, Imagination Video Books, Phoenix, AZ; Tanja Milojevic, Voiceover Talent and AD Voicer, Peabody, MA; Satauna Howery, Award-Winning Voiceover Artist, Voice Actor, and Audio Description Advocate, Clifton Park, NY; Thomas Reid, Audio Producer, Voiceover Artist, Audio Description Narrator, Consultant, & Advocate, Stroudsburg, PA; Nefertiti Matos Olivares, Audio Description Writer, Narrator, and Voiceover Artist, New York, NY; Rick Boggs, Founder and General Manager, Audio Eyes, Voiceover Artist, Description Narrator, Audio Producer, and Description Script Quality Expert, Los Angeles, CA; and Eric Troup, Description Script Quality Expert, and Audio Producer, Bend, OR
Virtual

Recording: Audio Description, "Nothing About Us Without Us": Blind Consultants, Voiceover Talent, and Production Professionals Involved in Creating AD.

Session 2: (ADP)

Thursday, June 23
4:00 PM to 5:15 PM CDT
Panel Presentation: Audio Description Update on TV Broadcast and Cable Networks and the CVAA
Moderator: Carl Richardson, Co-Chair, ACB Audio Description Project, Brighton, MA
Network Representatives (invited) Virtual

Recording: Audio Description Update on TV Broadcast and Cable Networks and the CVAA.

Session 3: (ADP)

Saturday, June 25
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM CDT
Panel Presentation: Self Description: Too Much or Just Enough – Blind Community Perspectives
In Favor: Renee Arrington-Johnson, Member, ACB ADP Steering Committee, Lyndhurst, OH; Gabriel Lopez Kafati, President, Blind LGBT Pride International, Miami Lakes, FL; Opposed: Mark Lasser, Founder, American Association of Blind Theater-Goers, New York, NY; Pat Sheehan, Chair, Audio Description Project Section 508 Sub-Committee, Silver Spring, MD; Audio Description Scholars: Professor Hannah Thompson, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, England; and Dr. Joel Snyder, Founder and Senior Consultant, American Council of the Blind, Audio Description Project, Tacoma Park, MD
Virtual

Recording: Self Description: Too Much or Just Enough - Blind Community Perspectives.

Session 4: (BPI)

Saturday, July 2
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm CDT
A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer/Describer; CHI 208 Join Chris Snyder as he takes you through a workday for a blind AD professional. You’ll get to hear what it’s like to QC a script, voice, edit and mix a program, and ask questions afterward. The curious and the aspiring AD professionals won’t want to miss it.

Recording: A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer/Describer.

Session 5: (BPI)

Sunday, July 3
4:00 pm to 5:15 pm CDT
A Day in the Life of an Audio Engineer/Describer (REPEAT)
Hybrid

Session 6: (ACB General Session)

Monday, July 4 (ACB/ADP)
10:15 am CDT: ADP Awards Presentation
Hybrid

Recording: ADP Awards Presentation.

Session 7: (ADP)

Tuesday, July 5
4:00 PM to 5:15 PM CDT
Take a Walk in the Park: Get Up and Get Moving as You Explore our Midwest National Parks through the National Parks Service's Healthy Parks, Healthy People Program. Discover how audio description plays a key part in making parks accessible. Learn how you can be a partner and advocate for equal access in our national parks. Moderator: Jo Lynn Bailey-Page, Audio Description Project Coordinator, American Council of the Blind, Los Altos, CA; Holly Griesemer, Management and Program Analyst, National Park Service Midwest Region: Rivers, rails, Conservation, and Accessibility Programs, Omaha, NE; Clark Rachfal, Director, Advocacy and Governmental Affairs, American Council of the Blind, Alexandria, VA
Hybrid

Session 8: (UniD Project)

Wednesday, July 6 & Thursday, July 7
10:00 am to 3:00 pm CDT
Update and Audio Describe Your Profile Photo Would you like a free, professional and audio-described portrait photo for your Social Media channels, email, and other formal correspondence? Dr. Brett Oppegaard of the UniDescription Project is studying the Audio Description of portraiture, and as a part of that research effort, he will take your photo and work with you to audio describe it. He will be analyzing the results of those efforts for his academic work, and you will be emailed an
electronic version of the image and the audio description for whatever purposes you wish. These photo sessions will be by appointment. They are expected to take about 15 minutes. If you would like to book a slot, just send the time and date you would like to brett.oppegaard@hawaii.edu. Thanks for your interest!
(on-site only)

Session 9: (ADP)

Wednesday, July 6
4:00 PM to 5:15 PM CDT
Get to Know More About the 2022 Audio Description Project Award Winners
(Follow-up to ADP Award presentations Monday, July 4 at 10:15 AM.)
Through a meet-and-greet interview format and audience Q&A, we will learn more about what makes these people such wonderful and deserving award winners and advocates for audio description.
Hosts: Jeff Thom, Chair, Awards Committee of the Audio Description Project, Sacramento, CA; Jo Lynn Bailey-Page, ACB Audio Description Coordinator, Los Altos, CA/ and Kim Charlson, Co-Chair, Audio Description Coordinator, Watertown, MA
Hybrid

Thursday, July 7 (ACB General Session)

1:00 pm: Brett Oppegaard, The UniDescription Project