In this episode, Brian and Carl have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Barry Cronin, the person who invented audio description for television broadcast, and the person that the recent Barry Award given by the Audio Description Project was named for.  Also you find out how the sport of bowling gave him the idea. So sit back and hear about how audio description came about in the early days.

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In this episode, Brian and Carl meet with Jessica Doonan, Manager of Accessibility for the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, to discuss how audio description works in a museum setting.

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Show Notes:

MFA Access Webpage: https://www.mfa.org/visit/accessibility

Contact info- Email: access@mfa.org

Contact info-phone: 617-369-3189

Next Virtual Feeling for Form Tour (Descriptive tour):

Saturday, December 18th, 2021, 3-4:15 pm.

To register email access@mfa.org or call 617-369-3189

Fabric of a Nation Audio tour with Audio Description: https://web-app.cuseum.com/?3#!/tour-overview/1866

Join Brian and Carl as they delve into the world of audio description of children’s books. They speak to Richard Rieman, founder of Imagination Videobooks, a service that makes children’s books accessible to children of all backgrounds and abilities. Richard Rieman (Ree’man), “The Audiobook Wizard,” is an acclaimed authority on audio self-publishing. He has narrated and produced hundreds of Indie-published audiobooks. He is the author of the Global eBook Awards Gold Medal Winner in Writing/Publishing, “The Author’s Guide to Audiobook Creation.”Richard is a Gold Medal National Ben Franklin Independent Book Publishers Assn. (IBPA) Award Winner for Audiobook Nonfiction, an Audible Approved Audiobook Producer and a 5-time winner of the EVVY Award for audiobook narration and production. Richard created the “Imagination Videobooks” Nonprofit to make children’s illustrated books accessible to all children by creating audiobooks with audio description of the pictures for blind children, and videobooks with captions and sign language for deaf children.

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Show Notes:

Imagination Videobooks: www.imaginationvideobooks.org

The Described and Captioned Media Program: www.dcmp.org