Pre-recorded for our live Comic-Con panel, The Track You Never Heard, with Colleen Connor and Anna Capezzera.

Colleen is blind and runs Audio Description Training Retreats. She built it with a specific rule: the blind professional teaches, as an equal, instead of getting called in afterward to give feedback. Classes cap at eight. Notes go out ahead of time so class time is practice and feedback, nothing else.

Anna oversees the Audio Description department at Deluxe. She started as a writer, then learned the audio side so she could talk to her engineers in their own language. She walks through the whole process, order to delivery, including the weekend her entire team wrote in parallel to hit a schedule that was cut to a quarter.

Then the harder conversations.

Distributors can drop full seasons and split them across writers, so nobody holds the whole story.

Colleen makes the case for blind quality control catching what sighted QC won't.

Anna makes the case for hiring blind voice performers and reading what the audience actually says.

And Colleen's line, which is the whole episode in nine words: You can't be extremely fast and good at Audio Description.