Good morning The office in student services that handles requests from students for accommodations is looking into the use of audio descriptions on commercially produced DVDs and is seeking assistance from the library. I read about this topic at the Audio Descriptions Project web site at http://www.acb.org/adp/index.html , and it seems as though it is hit or miss, even with feature films. Is anyone familiar with the use of audio descriptions in educational video?
The request for information from this office was prompted by an inquiry from a faculty member who will have a blind student one of his classes for the first time this year. The faculty member uses many films and is working with student services on accommodations for this student. Thanks for any help that you can provide! Happy New Year, Cindy Steinhoff Anne Arundel Community College Arnold, MD ________________________________ The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
