Blind film and TV audiences experience every superhero battle, every alien landscape, every moment a character's face changes everything. At Comic-Con 2026, I'm moderating a panel on the people who make that possible.
This year, Comic Con International brings together four writers, performers, and quality control specialists who build Audio Description for some of the biggest titles in the genre. Superman. The Last of Us. Ant-Man. Barbie.
I wanted the room to hear the decisions that actually build this work. Not the pitch. The decisions.
What We Talked About
Every AD track is a hundred small choices nobody sees. What gets described. What gets left out. How much time you have before the next line of dialogue closes the window.
For superhero and sci-fi audiences, that gets harder. A costume reveal, a CGI battle, an alien landscape that took three years to render. All of it has to land in a breath.
This panel was about the craft behind that: the writing, the performance, the quality control that makes sure a blind viewer gets the same story a sighted one does.
Who's In The Room
We bring an AD writer, AD trainer, Senior Director of Accessibility, and a Quality Control Specialist.
Christina Stevens
Christina started writing **Audio Description** with Deluxe in 2014. She’s now Accessibility Manager, overseeing the full stable of AD writers across all projects and assisting with ASL dubbing production.
Anna Capezzera
Anna is Senior Director of Accessibility at Deluxe, leading **Audio Description** and sign language services. She started as an AD writer, and her screenwriting background shows in how she thinks about story.
She’s written hundreds of hours of AD, from Jessica Jones to She-Hulk, and supervised AD and ASL for Ant-Man, Barbie, Minecraft, and Superman. She’s also raising a service-puppy-in-training for Guide Dogs of America. You can hear her pre-recorded interview for Comic Con 2026 here, on The ADNA Presents Podcast.
Colleen Connor
Colleen is the Co-founder and Director of Audio Description Training Retreats (ADTR), which celebrated 10 years of international Audio Description (AD) training in 2025. A blind and chronically ill advocacy professional with a background in writing, voice, and music theatre, Colleen brings a unique perspective to accessibility consulting, training, quality control, and voice performance across live and pre-recorded media.
Through ADTR, Colleen and the graduate team develop training programs that center blind professionals, encourage collaboration across lived experiences, and support underrepresented voices in the AD industry. Their work has led to partnerships with organizations including Descriptive Video Works, the BlackStar Film Festival, and Netflix. Beyond leading ADTR, Colleen has voiced several AD tracks, provides quality control consultation, and is featured in various podcasts and articles. Recently, they co-wrote the open AD for the award-winning AFB documentary film “Possibilities,” celebrating Helen Keller’s legacy through the modern blind experience.
Colleen’s work focuses on building a more inclusive, collaborative future for accessible storytelling.
You can also hear Colleen’s pre-recorded interview for Comic Con 2026 here, on The ADNA Presents audio podcast.
Serina Gilbert
Serina Gilbert is a self-proclaimed Audio Description Snob who started working as an Audio Description Quality Control Specialist in 2020. She loves getting exposed to new genres and having a hand in making titles accessible for the blind and low vision community. She was the first blind QC specialist to have her name announced in the credits for The Last of Us Part II. Serina also shares her life as a blind woman on her page Blindy Girl, where she advocates for and raises awareness about issues that impact the blind community.
Roy Samuelson, Moderator
Roy Samuelson is an Audio Description performer, author, and accessibility consultant. He’s voiced thousands of hours of AD for Disney+, Netflix, FX, Hulu, and Max, and consults with studios and executives on human versus AI voice in accessibility work. He’s the founder of Parity Endeavors, host of The ADNA Presents podcast (260+ episodes), and author of A Voice Actor’s Guide to Audio Description Performance. He holds a patent portfolio related to Audio Description. He moderates this panel again at Comic-Con 2026.
Why This Panel Matters
All four talk about AD as craft.Writing that makes a hundred judgment calls per minute, performance that knows when to stay quiet, and quality control that catches what a rushed timeline misses. Performance that knows when to speak and when to stay quiet. Quality control that catches what a rushed timeline misses.
This is going to be an exciting panel to moderate!
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