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The Audio Description Project: Promoting Accessibility for Students Who Are Blind
The BADIE contest promotes the Benefits of Audio Description in Education by inviting young people who are blind or visually impaired to view a video with audio description and write about their experience. Audio description is a secondary audio track with additional narration that describes vital visual information. The contest is hosted by the American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project (ADP) and the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP).
The predecessor to the BADIE contest is the Young Describer Film Contest (YDFC). The first winner of the YDFC was Cricket Bidleman, who is now a graduate journalism student at Stanford University and a disability rights advocate. The latest Grand Prize-winning essays from the BADIE contest can be read at https://dcmp.org/learn/595-badie-contest-grand-prize-winners. We look forward to seeing what the future holds for these talented young people.
The ADP was founded by Joel Snyder, PhD, president of Audio Description Associates, a respected pioneer of audio description and creator of the original YDFC contest. Jo Lynn Bailey-Page is ADP Coordinator and continues ADP’s mission to promote and advocate for the use of high-quality Audio Description in all [...]