Blog
Welcome Chana Smith-Balloffet!
Descriptive Video Works would like to welcome Chana Smith-Balloffet to the team. Chana is DVW’s new International Operations Manager, based in France. Chana is a global citizen, holding dual citizenship of the US and France. She also speaks English, French, Brazilian...
Audio Description Enhances My Life and Provides Equal Access
Empish J. Thomas, a member of Descriptive Video Works' advisory council and Disability Consultant writes about her first experience with Audio Description, and what having AD means to her experience with media now. My first foray with an audio described movie was a...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Rhys Lloyd, Studio Head, shares his thoughts on Global Accessibility Awareness Day and the importance of inclusion and accessibility for the more than one billion people worldwide with disabilities. At Descriptive Video Works, we provide Audio Description (AD) or...
The Beijing Olympics and Paralympic Games: A Unique Perspective
Descriptive Video Works’ project manager Nate Schwartz had a unique perspective of the recent Beijing Olympics and Paralympics Winter Games. Nate worked behind the scenes, helping to organize our live describer team and managing details around events and ceremonies, but he had another very different perspective – as the brother of an Olympian. Continue Reading The Beijing Olympics and Paralympic Games: A Unique Perspective
A Warm Welcome to Our New Advisory Council
As a leading provider of accessible media services including Audio Description (AD), Described Video (DV), and Live Description, Descriptive Video Works aims to serve the community of blind and low vision people, and the many others that benefit from accessibility...
Looking back: The most memorable Olympic Games in history
This summer’s Tokyo Olympics were memorable for many reasons: the event took place during a state of emergency in Japan after having been postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the Olympics debuted new sports like skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing,...
Show, don’t tell, in Audio Description
By Julie Anne Wight, freelance Audio Description writer I struggle with migraines, and when I get a bad one it can impact me for days. My migraines manifest in extreme photosensitivity, leaving me unable to open my eyes. During one of these periods I discovered Audio...
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)
Test: Do you know what it’s like to watch TV when you can’t see? Today is the 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), celebrated on the third Thursday of May. It’s an important day, aimed at getting everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital...
Developing games for low-vision players
By Rhys Lloyd, Studio Head, Descriptive Video Works Descriptive Video Works' Rhys Lloyd explains how to implement audio description to make your game more accessible Every gamer wants to escape the world they're in, and immerse themselves in a new reality. That's the...
It’s Audio Description Awareness Day 2021!
It's finally here: April 16, 2021, the second annual Audio Description Awareness Day. It's a big day at Descriptive Video Works; here’s why. They say "a picture is worth a thousand words". But what if you can’t see the picture? No matter what kind of visual media...