The State of Digital Accessibility of the Arts

With Global Accessibility Awareness Day this week (Thursday 20 May 2021) here on Connect Radio we are looking at digital accessibility for blind and partially sighted people. 

 

One area of accessibility we talk a lot about on Connect Radio is audio description of the arts. During the Covid-19 pandemic many theatres, museums, galleries, and other arts venues put their audio description offer online in a digital format. Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Jo Wood, visually impaired audio description theatre user and chair of national audio description charity VocalEyes to find out the state of digital description of the arts for blind and partially sighted people.

 

Toby began by asking Jo what description of the arts means personally to her as an AD user and as the Chair of VocalEyes in this Covid digital world.  

 

Jo also outlined what the digital AD offer has been like for visually impaired people over the last year or so, her thoughts on whether venues would offer both an in-house and online description experience as venues start to re-open and whether technology will shape the future of audio description of the arts.  

 

Do visit the VocalEyes website to find out more about audio description of the arts for blind and partially sighted people - 

https://vocaleyes.co.uk


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