Fred Brack writes: “When I retired from IBM in 1999, my wife Kathy, who is blind, suggested that I take a class on how to be an audio describer since I had been doing it for her for more than 25 years. Audio description is the narration of key visual events at live theatre, cinema, or on TV for people with visual impairment. I’ve been an audio describer locally in Raleigh, North Carolina, since then. In 2003, I started a website on audio description for a blind gentleman named Barry Levine that was later picked up by the American Council of the Blind as the Audio Description Project. In the summer of 2025, I received the Barry Levine Memorial Award for Achievement in Audio Description from the ACB for my 22 years of work on the website, for which I now list nearly 13,000 movies and series available with audio description across nearly 25 providers (like cinema, TV, and streaming services like Netflix). I encourage any readers or their family members with impaired vision to visit the website.”
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