Offering a bit of constructive feedback on the latest audio described TV show, theatre performance or movie you watched could get you in the running to win an iPad.
Marking World Audio Description Awareness Day on Saturday 16 April, Vision Australia Radio’s Talking Vision spoke to Polly Goodwin, who is running the Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE) contest in Australasia.
The competition hopes to raise awareness of local audio description (AD) services, which Polly believes are being underutilised in Australia.
“Young people who are blind or have low vision have had relatively low exposure to AD compared to people in America, Canada, the UK and many parts of Europe,” she said.
“We know that audio visual content plays a really important role in education, culture, society.”
Photo: Vision Australia and BADIE come together to launch an AD competition.
The competition is open to students from prep to year 12, and requires a 300-word review of a piece of AD content; whether it is a new release movie, a favourite DVD or a recent museum experience.
The review can be submitted electronically, in braille, large print or voice memo.
“We're looking for opinions so there's no right or wrong answer,” Polly said.
“You can be a frequent use of audio description or you might never have heard of it before.”
Listen to the full interview in the player below:
Visit the BADIE website to find out more and to submit your review.