This panel of leading museum access professionals’ profiled various ways audio description is used in museum settings, and how each museum has coped with providing description services during a pandemic.

Moderator: Joel Snyder, PhD, Founder and Senior Consultant, ACB Audio Description Project, Takoma Park, MD 

Panelists

•: Beth Ziebarth, Director, Accessibility Services, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

• Jessica Doonan, Manager, Accessibility, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• Charlotte Martin, Senior Manager, Access Initiatives, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY

• Robert Bready, Vice President for Operations, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, CO