Jul 2, 2026 · 55 min · 13 segments
In this week’s episode of *AccessWorld*, Aaron and Tony create their own bracket for the top ten assistive tech tools that have had the greatest impact on expanding independence for people who are…
Tony StevensHost
Aaron PreeceHost
We thought it would be cool to talk about independence and accessibility and maybe the top 10 things that have really enabled independence the most using assistive tech access technology throughout American history.
And, you know, thinking of the Star Spangled Banner, it is kind of the first American image description, audio description.
I mean, you know, someone could have painted a painting, and I'm sure there's plenty of paintings out there depicting the Battle of Fort McHenry, the battle over Baltimore Harbor.
description and ad has been on my mind a lot lately we've released the film folks can check it out at afb.org slash possibilities our documentary we had the screening at carnegie carnegie hall this past weekend on helen's birthday to celebrate the launch of the film which has open audio description in it but uh you know we can talk if that's in the top 10 if ad does ad make the top 10 in terms of breakthroughs i could i
We've talked about it on here before, I think, about having access to the same...
I know being a kid and renting the local blindness organization had a bunch of the descriptive video in like a library you could rent.
What was the, I think the first audio description film that we had, I worked at a camp for the blind in the early 90s, like high school summer job and a year or two of college summer job.
We thought it would be cool to talk about independence and accessibility and maybe the top 10 things that have really enabled independence the most using assistive tech access technology throughout American history.
And, you know, thinking of the Star Spangled Banner, it is kind of the first American image description, audio description.
I mean, you know, someone could have painted a painting, and I'm sure there's plenty of paintings out there depicting the Battle of Fort McHenry, the battle over Baltimore Harbor.
description and ad has been on my mind a lot lately we've released the film folks can check it out at afb.org slash possibilities our documentary we had the screening at carnegie carnegie hall this past weekend on helen's birthday to celebrate the launch of the film which has open audio description in it but uh you know we can talk if that's in the top 10 if ad does ad make the top 10 in terms of breakthroughs i could i
We've talked about it on here before, I think, about having access to the same...
I know being a kid and renting the local blindness organization had a bunch of the descriptive video in like a library you could rent.
What was the, I think the first audio description film that we had, I worked at a camp for the blind in the early 90s, like high school summer job and a year or two of college summer job.
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