Wesley Simon
Although much of the content provided by current online streaming services are accompanied by closed-captioning and audio descriptions, many older films, as well as more contemporary independent films, are not easily available with these services. One particular area of need, for the anglosphere, is the high number of non-English language films that are only available with subtitles, but have no English voice-over (or overdub) that is accessible to persons with visual impairments. To address a specific case where this need arose in the Spring ‘22 semester, the AFVS70 (The Art of Film) teaching team coordinated with TDM to organize live subtitle readers during screenings, and with the Bok Center to record English voice-over tracks for online availability. The following is a list of considerations and resources that we have accrued in our pursuit of this project, that we hope future Harvard teaching staff will find helpful.
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