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Description

This app shares prototype audio description from dozens of National Park Service sites throughout the country, translating their paper brochures into acoustic media, designed for people who are blind, visually impaired, print dyslexic, or who prefer learning through sound.

Everyone deserves full access to public discourse about public resources, and this University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH) research project has been created to serve diverse audiences, under the core principles of Universal Design.

Our sponsors include: The University of Hawaii, The National Park Service, Google, The American Council of the Blind, and The Hawaii-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.

Core contributors include: Brett Oppegaard (Principal Investigator, UH), Megan Conway (Co-Pi, UH), Thomas Conway (Co-Pi, UH), Michele Hartley (Media Accessibility Coordinator, NPS), Joe Oppegaard (CTO, Montana Banana), Philipp Jordan (RA, UH), Tuyet Hayes (RA, UH), Sajja Koirala (RA, UH), and Terence Rose (RA, UH).

For more information, visit: www.unidescription.org

To contact the PI, email: [email protected]

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4.72 out of 5

72 ratings in United States

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More Than Just Frosting on the Cake

This app not only teaches the public about audio description and provides opportunities to contribute content, but it also serves as a vehicle for exploring treasured national parks where everyone can learn about them, and people who are blind or have low vision can gain access to all that information most people take for granted. talk about a win-win situation!

Pretty easy to use

Simple and intuitive for the most part.

Useful but needs emotion

I found this app to be very useful; however as a sighted person never using this type of system, I found the automatic description “robot” voice to be too boring and unemotive.

Opens up access to our parks

I can listen to a little or a lot about each location, depending on my interest. Easy to navigate the menus within the app. It’s helping me decide where I’d like to visit next!

Easy to use, and useful

It’s easy to find the park brochure you’re interested in, drill down to the sections you want to read and/or hear, and to make speed adjustments. I would’ve given it five stars but I prefer human voices to the robotic voice.

Excellent Resource

I listened to the audio description for Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s unigrid brochure. What an excellent resource that serves to make our national parks accessible for an even larger portion of folks.

Excellent

Very informative and easy to operate. Sites like Antietam National Battlefield that have moved beyond automated voice to a human reader make this an excellent informational resource.

A much-needed resource!

I’m very happy this growing resource exists! A step in the right direction for a more inclusive visiting experience!

Great for Accessibility

Thankful this app helps make more things accessible!

An amazing service

These audio descriptions of National park service site brochures make our parks accessible for all.

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