Podcasts

• Inside Audio Description Quality Control With Rebecca Odum (The Dark Room) [2026]

  Alex and Lee chat with Rebecca Odum, a blind audio description quality control specialist, about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making audio description the best it can be. Rebecca shares what the quality control process looks like from her perspective, where she would like to see audio description technology improve, and the opportunities and challenges of providing audio description for live performances. Along the way, she explores how blind and low vision voices can help shape the continued growth and evolution of audio description.

• Audio Description Part 1 (New Horizons - Blind Citizens Australia)

  A conversation with Suzie Hudson from the Tweed Valley Branch about her assistance in the early stages of BCA's Audio Description Campaign.

• Audio Description Part 2 (New Horizons - Blind Citizens Australia) [2026]

  A conversation with Lynn Davis, about her AD experience of a concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House.

• The Art & Evolution Of Audio Description With Deborah Lewis (The Dark Room) [2026]

  Alex and Lee chat with Deborah Lewis of Audio Description Solutions, who has been working in audio description since 1987. Drawing on nearly four decades of experience, Deborah shares how the art form has evolved, what separates good description from great description, and how blind and low-vision audiences have helped shape the work. The conversation also explores building lasting accessibility, balancing standards with creativity, and where audio description could go next.

• Sites Unseen: What’s Revealed by Traveling With the Blind by Michael Barbaro (The New York Times) [2026]

  How an extraordinary trip to India changed one photographer’s perspective on travel

Articles

• Monstrous Musings: We Have Such Sights to Show You… Cool, Bro… But Could You Describe Them Too? by Ariel Baska (Fangoria) [2026]

  As a low-vision filmmaker who also sometimes has to avoid screens because of migraines, I use audio description to get all the gnarly details I’m missing when I have to look away from the screen. Horror movies make my heart sing, and well-written audio description lets the guts and gore strike a chord that stays with me forever.

• The Voice of Terror in the Silence of the Image by Felipe Mateus (Jornal da Unicamp) [2026]

  Every element in cinema serves a function of producing emotions and meanings. Therefore, the mere description of scenes can provide an idea of the film's plot, but it is insufficient to evoke the same emotions mediated by sight and hearing, especially in horror films. It was with this in mind that a doctoral research project in Applied Linguistics, conducted at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at Unicamp, focused on the work of audio description

• Audio is King: Television Beyond the Screen (Royal National Institute of Blind People) [2026]

  Our Audio is King research explores whether audio description could help sighted audiences stay with television programmes when looking at a screen is not practical and what needs to change for that idea to work.

• ⭐Audio Description - Art or Industry? (archive.org) [2002]

  First published in Dail (Disability Arts in London Magazine) magazine, November 2002. An interview with blind film-maker Raina Haig. "Audio describers conventionally say 'We are not an interpretive service, we are simply providing an objective description'. There is no such thing in film. Every single frame is a complex event, the outcome of decisions made by the filmmakers, The audio description is necessarily a series of subjective decisions made in response to the film. So I think it is, inherently, an interpretative job."

• Crossing The Pond: A Deep Dive Into UK And US Audio Description by Marie Campbell (Red Bee Media) [2025]

  I’ve been thinking about the differences – and similarities – in English-language audio description (AD) a lot, mainly because I heard a few old assumptions recently at an international conference: that British AD always over-interprets emotions and “force-names” characters, and American AD is generally more “objective” (that most loaded of words). It chimed with my own once-held prejudices, that American AD wouldn’t say “He smiles” but would have “He creases his eyes and turns up the corners of his mouth”. How wordy, I thought!

Videos

• Community Information Day 2026 - Introduction to Audio Description by Charlotte Wiltshire (Youtube) [2026]

  Introduction to Audio Description by Charlotte Wiltshire, Sydney Opera House

• Communication Access in Emergencies - Josue, Audio Descriptions (Youtube) [2026]

  This is an informational video with audio description. I've included this as an example of extended audio description which doesn't get discussed much, and I note how much the music contributes to smoothing what could be a jarring start-stop transition where the inserted AD occurs.

• Experiencing a dance performance through audio description [2023]

  In these excerpts from "Peter & Wendy," Allison Tignor describes a performance by the Open Dance Project in Houston. The dancers featured are Sonia Engman and Ruby Cullen.

Audio Description Introductions

Always good to listen to a couple of these, get a feel for how an audio description introduction is structured, how it flows. The character introductions are especially interesting to get an idea of how people describe themselves, instead of being described. There's more of these, so if you're interested go digging around SBS onDemand or the Big Brother UK channel on Youtube.

• Our Medicine Season 2 (SBS OnDemand)

  A behind-the-scenes look at the front line of Australia's strained medical services, shining a light on First Nations professionals working to achieve better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and communities.

• The Hospital - In The Deep End Season 1 (SBS OnDemand)

  “Three Australian icons take a deep dive into a public hospital's frontline to find out how healthy the country's health system really is.” Excellent example that includes cinematographic notes, and vivid descriptions of the icons.

• Audio Described: Rob | Big Brother UK 2026 (Youtube)

  Get to know Big Brother UK 2026’s Rob through his own words. This audio-described video features Rob narrating key visual details about himself to make the experience more inclusive for blind and visually impaired viewers. Rob talks about how his teeth are his favourite feature and his flamboyant personality.

• Audio Described: Johanne | Big Brother UK 2026 (Youtube)

  Get to know Big Brother UK 2026’s Johanne through her own words. This audio-described video features Johanne narrating key visual details about herself to make the experience more inclusive for blind and visually impaired viewers. Johanne talks about her height being her favourite feature and her tattoos.

Social Media

• Size Comparisons (Facebook) [2026]

  Every once in a while I find myself using size comparisons (a character shrinks themselves to the size of an apple, they bake a soufflé the size of a car), and I was wondering if people had common items they tend to refer to. What are your go-to size comparisons? 5 comments.

• The Psychosocial Side of Accessibility and Audio Description by Fern Lulhamm (LinkedIn) [2026]

  “I don’t use audio description, because of how it makes me feel.” Sometimes the biggest barrier to accessing what we need has nothing to do with technology.

Visual Reference