[nabs-l] a video advocating for audio description!

Sun Apr 14 16:23:00 UTC 2013

Hi all,

I agree with Arielle and Chris.  It's frustrating that they don't have
some menu feature built in so that the options can be used by a blind
person independently.  As it is possible to get a lot of the plot
details from just listening to the dialog and some of the descriptive
information I've heard is about things that aren't important to the
movie at all, I see the menu issue as more important and think all DVD
and BluRay disks should have it, or at least some standard keystroke
on the remote to turn voice access on and off.  I think it would be
great if you could do something like press zero on your remote and
have a voice say something like, "Welcome to the Spoken Menu for
Disney's Dispicable Me.  For play press 1, for scene selection press
2, for settings press 3, for more press 4."  I think that would be
amazing.  I do think that more television shows should be described
though, although in a minimalist sence because I don't like everyy
moment of silence in the movie taken up by some monotone person
talking.  For example, House is the one show I'm crazy about any more,
and it wouldn't really require audito description if you've followed
the series and know things such as how House looks, that he walks with
a limp, etc.  All the funny things that happen are snide remarks from
him, so a reader wouldn't have to describe it.  The thing I think
would be most important to describe in this case would be what happens
with the patient.  E.G. The patient goes rigid and starts convulsing
violently.  Heart monitors and alarms describe to us that something is
happening, but as someone who tries to figure out possible diagnoses
along with the show I think that sort of information would be cool to
have.

On 4/14/13, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net> wrote:
> Good morning, Chris,
>
> Doesn't the Federation believe people ought to have access to
> everything that ol' Sighty does? Does ol' Sighty not have access to
> both accessable currency, and descriptive TV? Please explain!
> Carly09:15 PM 4/13/2013, Chris Nusbaum wrote:
>>Arielle,
>>
>>I agree with you. As with the issue over accessible currency, I think the
>>NFB's point was that these were nice luxuries, not necessities.
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>Chris Nusbaum, Co-Chair
>>Public Relations Committee
>>Maryland Association of Blind Students
>>Phone: (443) 547-2409
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
>>Silverman
>>Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:42 PM
>>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] a video advocating for audio description!
>>
>>Robert is right about NFB's former position on audio description. My
>>understanding is that NFB shifted to be more in favor a few years ago.
>>Personally, I don't have a strong opinion about it either way. I agree
>> audio
>>description is nice but I also think that reading text on the screen
>> should
>>take precedence over describing entertainment. Also, I am concerned that
>>some audio description features built into television networks or DVD's
>>cannot be turned on and off without sighted assistance. To me, this
>> negates
>>the whole purpose of having description at all.
>>Arielle
>>
>>On 4/13/13, Joshua Lester <JLester8462 at pccua.edu> wrote:
>> > Well:
>> > One thing the two organizations can do, to heal the division, is to
>> > stop hosting their national conventions at the same time!
>> > #2. They need to stop bad-mouthing us!
>> > We don't talk about them at our conventions, but at the one I
>> > attended, they were bad-mouthing the "TenBroek machine!"
>> > I was also treated like a baby at the ACB Arkansas state convention,
>> > and while I was at the hotel, (this was in 2007,) the sighted guide
>> > that they hired wanted to share the room with me, and to try to take
>> > care of me like I couldn't care for myself!
>> > At that point, I said that I was tired of it and left!
>> > Two years later, I discovered the NFB, and I'm glad I did!
>> > The Brailled currency is what drew me to the ACB, but after further
>> > research, I found that it was impossible.
>> > If the ACB would adopt our philosophy of independence, and believe in
>> > us, like we believe in ourselves, we'd do a better job united, than we
>> > are doing divided.
>> > Blessings, Joshua
>> > ________________________________________
>> > From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Robert William
>> > Kingett [kingettr at gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:26 PM
>> > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] a video advocating for audio description!
>> >
>> > I'm a member of the ACB and the NFB at the same time. I don't belong
>> > to either camp exclusively. I like what both has to offer. my advice
>> > is take what you can from both groups and learn from both, and support
>> > both. They both have amazing things going on
>> >
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