Very few video games have earned as much hype and won as many awards in the past year as Vampire Survivors. It’s all the more remarkable when you remember it’s a $5 game made by one person with the help of a few freelancers. Imagine if the 1986 Nintendo game Castlevania was a twin-stick shooter […]
Author: James Herndon
On Tuesday, March 14th, I hosted a webinar with Chancey Fleet titled, “Live Audio Descriptions for 360-Degree Video: Best Practices.” The webinar gave Chancey and I an opportunity to share our research on audio descriptions (AD) for immersive media, and start a conversation with the wider accessibility community about where to go from here. Our […]
On November 21, 2019, I gave a webinar for 3Play Media on behalf of Equal Entry, titled “The Best Way to Create Audio Description.” There were over 130 attendees who learned about what audio description is, what to describe when writing it, and what makes audio description good or bad. The webinar also gave attendees […]
What’s an Audio Description? Audio description is an optional narration track intended for blind and low-vision consumers of visual media. A narrator talks through a presentation, describing what is happening on the screen or stage during the natural pauses in dialogue, such as a musical sequence: Or during pauses in dialogue: In the United States, […]
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently gave a presentation at thoughtbot titled “Multimedia and Accessibility.” The presentation focused on accessibility techniques to improve access to multimedia content. Real world examples were pulled from content such as “The Facts of Life,” “Flowers for Algernon,” “The Miracle Worker,” and “St. Elsewhere.” For those who were unable to […]
Q&A with Niclas Bergström, CEO of ReadSpeaker
Jun 21, 2016This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Niclas Bergström, CEO of ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker converts text to speech on a variety of devices through a “Listen” button–try it on this article. Bergström comes from a sound and computer background, and has started and developed companies in this field for over 15 years. Follow ReadSpeaker on Twitter at @ReadSpeaker. […]
This month’s installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with John Huth, Young Adult Librarian for The Child’s Place in Brooklyn. He collaborates with partners, including schools and community-based organizations, to provide high quality information services to underserved young people, including those with disabilities. When did you first get started in accessibility? In […]
Q&A with Tiffany Yu, Founder of Diversability
Feb 10, 2016This month’s installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Tiffany Yu, the Director of Business Development at REVOLT Media & TV. Yu is also the founder of Diversability, an award-winning social movement to rebrand disability. She graduated with honors from Georgetown University and currently lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter at […]
Q&A with Akash Khanolkar, Founder of CrowdViz
Jan 13, 2016This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Akash Khanolkar, founder of CrowdViz, a company that connects people who are visually impaired with sighted assistants. Through a video connection, assistants can offer various types of sighted help. When did you first get started in accessibility? Learning about the field of accessibility was such […]
In 1972, the first captions for broadcast television appeared on WGBH in Boston. For over 40 years, WGBH has remained an industry leader in providing media access to people with disabilities. They run a non-profit R&D organization called the National Center for Accessible Media, and they released a free captioning tool called MAGpie in 2000 […]