Want More Audio Description? Ask These Three Questions
When A Title Drops Without Audio Description, People Get Angry. I get it. I’m on the side of access and dignity, every time. But there’s a message I keep seeing that backfires, even when it’s said with good intent: “Audio description is cheap, so there’s no excuse.” I’m not judging the intent. I’m correcting the […]
Audio Description Is Trust, A Case Study From Paramount’s 4th Annual Summit on Disability
With Deep Thanks to Attendees, Participants, and Paramount’s Content Engagement, Partnership & Strategy Team Invitation And Stakes I was invited to Paramount’s 4th Annual Summit on Disability by a blind engineer to lead a Audio Description workshop. That detail matters. Audio description was created by blind people, for blind people. So my goal was simple: teach […]
When Neutral Means No One: Voice, Power, and Access
I didn’t realize how much power a voice had until I heard one that wasn’t supposed to exist. It was a synthetic narrator.Super clear. Calm. Conversational. Sophisticated, even. And completely wrong for the story it was telling. It had replaced a human actor for a series on TV. There were some imperfections in that human […]
Escape Competition Through Authenticity: Why Storytelling Still Wins in an AI World
(with gratitude to Jordan Morrow for the spark) What Is Happening? We’re living in a moment where everything seems to accelerate! AI models update faster than we can track, workflows get optimized weekly, and conversations often focus on scale, speed, and the next “smarter” tool. But underneath all the technical layers, something older and more […]