Sesame Workshop and DICAPTA Collaborate To Increase Accessibility of Sesame Street Content For Children With Disabilities
Spanish-language videos will be available with descriptive audio and captions, while emotional well-being content will have audio description and ASL versions
Pragda and Dicapta continue their collaboration
Dicapta is now working on creating audio descriptions for a new group of films from Pragda, the leading educational film distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema.
How to provide feedback to improve accesibility
Here are some tips for gathering feedback from users with disabilities to ensure a truly inclusive and accessible user experience.
Alma's Way Nominated for Audience Award at Audio Description Awards Gala
We are excited to announce that the children's show, Alma's Way, has been nominated for the Audience Awards at the Audio Description Awards Gala.
Our Watch Parties Have Returned!
We are thrilled to announce the return of our Watch Parties! These events take place monthly, and they showcase movies in Spanish with open audio description. They are presented for our Facebook group Latinos4Access, which consists of TV and film lovers, most of them with visual disabilities.
Jaclyn Packer, A Tenacious Researcher
A New Yorker through and through, Dr. Jacki Packer has worked for more than 40 years researching several areas related to disability.
WaterBear, the "environmental Netflix," will feature audio description on selected content
What if we could invite everyone to go from doomerism to domoreism? This is how WaterBear, the fully free streaming service/publisher, describes its mission.
Ileana Rivera Santa - Art in Service of Education and the Community
Ileana Rivera Santa greets us with a bright morning smile. Behind her is a dining table with some books and a forgotten coffee cup. When she learns that we are going to record the interview, Ileana gets up and swiftly moves a carved wooden screen, transforming her dining room into a magical stage. The curtain rises.
Universal Design by Jaclyn Packer, PhD
Universal Design is a concept we hear about a lot when talking about various types of disability. What does it mean? I would define it as the idea that everything that is created should be usable by everybody regardless of disability, age, gender, or other physical characteristics.