Join the 2025 Descriptathon and help make national parks more accessible! ACB, the National Park Service, and UniDescription (UniD) are recruiting volunteers on the blindness spectrum to create audio descriptions for selected national park brochures. Teams are composed of people who are sighted and people who are blind or have low vision, all of whom will collaborate to describe maps, paintings, and visual images within park brochures. All meetings are held remotely, so you might find yourself learning about a park in your state or across the continent.
The Thursday, November 14th ACB/ADP Awards Gala recognized outstanding achievement in a dozen media and entertainment categories, as well as announced the People’s Choice Award winners.
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Paralympic Games, taking place August 28-September 8. NBC is following up its stellar audio description of the Olympics with an expanded team of describers and unprecedent coverage. Learn How to Watch and/or read the press release. (Posted Aug 28)
Don't miss an ACB Community Event all about audio description at the Olympics! Thursday, August 22, 7:30pm ET: 2024 Summer Olympics with Audio Description.
For sixteen days, blind Americans enjoyed access to primetime coverage on NBC of the 2024 Parris Olympics with extensive audio description. Join us for 90 minutes of recap of this amazing event, including special guests from both NBC and the audio description company. Listen on ACB Media 6.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have begun, and NBCUniversal’s coverage is more accessible than ever before, with enhanced closed captioning, expanded audio description, and improved digital content accessibility. User comments on the AD are very positive so far. Here are some resources to get you started:
Wondering what to do this summer? Don't worry - the Audio Description Project is here for you. Mark your calendars now so you don't miss a moment of the excitement!
June 27-29: The ADP Conference. Concluded. Audio available later this summer.
OK, Country Music fans, Sunday's CMT Music Awards on CBS Sunday April 7th starting at 8pm (in each time zone) will be audio described. The show will also be carried live on Paramount+ AD, but the streamed version later should have it (though perhaps not right away...). (Posted Apr 4)
For the first time in BET history, audio description will be available for a live telecast. The NAACP Image Awards airs live on Saturday, March 16, at 8:00 PM ET/PT on BET, CBS Television Network, BET Her, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Pop, Smithsonian Channel™, TV Land, and streaming on Paramount+. It is not clear that all networks will carry description, though we know that Paramount+ will not. (Posted Mar 14)