PROGRAMME

workshop

Introduction

【Audio Description and Visual Impairment Services】
‧What is audio description and how does it differ from text to speech (reading aloud)?
‧What does audio description mean to someone who is visually impaired?
‧How to better plan and organize your events to provide quality service to visually impaired participants?

What kind of audio description best meets the needs of the visually impaired? This workshop provides an immersive experience in darkness that permits the participants to experience for themselves how visually impaired people use their non-visual senses in different cultural service settings and the challenges they face in the process.
In the darkness, the participants will have the opportunity to experience reading-out-loud (text to speech)service and suitable versus unsuitable audio descriptions; they will learn how the visually impaired perceive and experience the contrasted difference when receiving and understanding such narrations.
This workshop aims at helping participants understand, from the perspective of someone who is visually impaired, the type of conceptual cues that provide the most cultural accessibility, and the sort of designs and arrangements that result in high quality service.
How can your institution and your events be best organized to provide the right kind of service for people with visual impairment? In the workshop discussion, we will explore the most suitable or feasible solutions.

(This workshop will be held in Mandarin.)