John,

But with the video, years from now, would it be neat to have???At 10:28 AM
7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>        I know this response is a bit late, but I've ben away for quite
some time
>and am just getting back.
>
>        Back in February I was fortunate to have an opportunity to see the
movie
>Titanic with audio description.  I saw the movie in December without audio
>description so I can tell you all with no lack of confidence that I missed
>an enormous amount of important detail that the audio description was able
>to provide!  About 15 blind and visually impaired people got to see this
>show when I did, and every one of us was very impressed!
>
>        In June I got married.  We had a big wedding with about 195
guests.  My
>wife and I are both blind.  It is likely that, between the two of us, we
>missed a great deal of what was going on in the room.  Frankly, I'm not
>unhappy about this in the slightest.  We had a photographer, videographer,
>DJ, waiters and all sorts of other people around us.  The idea of having
>someone else around to describe the action in the room is just more then I
>can stand!  In the first place it would have been total information
>overload.  In the second place it would have detracted from the enjoyment of
>the other sensory inputs.  In the third place it would have inappropriately
>placed a third figure in the spotlight (my wife, me and a describer).
>
>        This article is the first I've heard of audio description on
reality.  It
>is also the first I've heard of an audio describer believing that
>descriptions of reality were part of her job.
>
>        I think that blind people have been dealing with reality without
audio
>description quite nicely and, while it might be beneficial in certain
>instances, it is certainly not the proposed task of audio description
>services to follow blind people around describing everything they pass.  If
>I want audio description at a sports event I'll bring my radio.  Other then
>this (or some other similar event)   I can't imagine actually wanting
>description!
>
>John
>
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