[Athen] Making Foreign Films Accessible

[Jennifer McDowell]

Hello everyone!

We have a student who is blind taking a French Cinema class this coming fall semester. We just received the video list from the professor and have been looking them up to see what we are looking at as far as accessibility goes. Clearly, the outlook is bleak. ;) There are 11 films total, all are in French with English subtitles available. Two are available dubbed in English, and one, by Sony, MAY have AD, but probably not. ;)

Our office is working with the student and professor, trying to brainstorm the best way to provide access to the student. I have reached out to all of the US production companies to see if they have anything (transcripts, dubbing, AD) available. We are also leaning toward making MP3 recordings of us reading the subtitles that the student can listen to [more or less] in time while the class is watching the movie.

Does anyone else have any ideas? Or have you had a similar situation and had success with a certain method? Any magic software I don’t know about that will do all of this for me? ;)

Honestly, any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you!

Jenny


Jennifer McDowell
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Disability Services at
Salem State University
Berry Library Learning Commons
Room G020

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