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THE AUDIO DESCRIPTION ASSOCIATION HOME PAGE
The Audio Description Association (ADA) supports audio describers and the providers and users of audio description.
Need to find a trained audio describer? download the directory of accredited describers who work in the region by clicking the links below.
Download the directory as a PDF document
Download the directory as a Word document
Want to know where you can attend an audio described performance in a theatre, arts centre, museum or gallery? follow this link
Download the list as a PDF document
Download the list as a Word document
Need help accessing resources to support audio description? contact ADSE@hants.gov.uk
About ADA
ADA was established to bring together audio describers throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland has a sister organisation). Working in the cultural sector, access to a professional association, offering advice, training, information and networking, helps maintain standards and raise awarenessof the services available.
ADA aims to offer support to providers and users of audio description,
ensure high standards of audio description provision for blind and partially sighted arts attenders,and support the promotion of audio description services
ADA's key activities include:
- Networking meetings and newsletter for audio describers, users and arts and cultural providers in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
- Accredited training courses in describing for theatre and other live performance, including accreditation of prior learning for describers with years of experience gained before accredited training was available.
- Advice on equipment.
- Advice on marketing of audio description services to potential users, raising awareness of access to the arts for blind and partially sighted attenders.
- Directory of trained describers.
- Directory of trainers and of blind and partially sighted assessors.
Interested in training as an audio describer or assessor?
Download the following for information on accredited training, for information on the accreditation of prior learning and on the experience of accreditation of prior learning.
Share examples of good practice
For example, a recent newsletter featured an article from Manchester’s Library Theatre on providing workshops for blind, partially sighted and deaf young attenders, to enable them to get the most out of their theatregoing experience.
Read the latest ADA newletter
Download the newsletter as a PDF document
Download the newsletter as a Word document
ENVISAGE seminar
The second Envisage symposium on Audio Description took place on March 23rd 2007 at the Oxford Playhouse.
Presentations and debates explored the world of audio description in the arts and media industries, and be of interest both to those familiar with audio description and those new to it.
The Association Chair, Anne Hornsby, managed the first South East region Envisage symposium, aimed at exploring the wider range of audio description practice now available.
Envisage 1 was held at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury in April. A transcript of the event is available by clicking the links below.
Download the transcript of Envisage as a PDF document
Download the transcript of Envisage as a Word document
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