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Audio Description Solutions
Audio Description Solutions is headed by William V.
Patterson who has almost 30 years experience in the field of
arts accessibility. He began working with Margaret and Cody
Pfanstiehl two years after they developed the art and
technique of audio description in 1981. He created the first
audio description service for live theatre performances on a
college campus at the University of Maryland, College Park,
in 1983.
Patterson has written and narrated description soundtracks for PBS American Playhouse productions as part of the nationally broadcast pilot of WGBH's Descriptive Video Service (DVS®), for numerous films and videos for the National Park Service, other government agencies, and production companies. He has trained audio describers and presented audio description workshops in communities across the United States. He is a founding member of the Audio Description Coalition.
Patterson's significant work with museums and exhibits includes writing the random access audio descriptions of exhibits at the Cultural Heritage Center of the Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society, serving as a major writer for random access audio descriptions of exhibits at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut and writing and narrating audio description cassette tours of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.
Patterson edited Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook, produced through an interagency agreement between the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and through an NEA cooperative agreement with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was released in June 2003.
Audio Description Solutions' writers, editors, and narrators are professionally trained individuals from across the country who have extensive experience in audio description.
Click
to view samples of audio description for film and
video.
Audio
Description Solutions
717.624.4860 • 717.624.4490 fax
110 Lincoln Way West
New Oxford, PA 17350-1314
Click to send an e-mail inquiry: info@AudioDescriptionSolutions.com
