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Guidance on Standards for Audio Description

7  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The members of the Audetel consortium:

wish to thank the following organisations and people who contributed to its work:

The European Commission’s TIDE initiative, for grant support and its Project Officer, Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero.

For generosity and advice given to Veronika Hyks in researching and developing the art of description:

Frederic Le Du, director of the Theatre de Chaillot, Paris;
Felix Dutour of L’Institut Valentin Haüy, Paris;
Laurie Everett and Gerry Field of the Descriptive Video Service in Boston;
Gregory Frazier, Director of Audiovision, San Francisco, California;
Diana Hull and Monique Raffray of the London Audio Description Service;
Joanne Lukes, The Theatre Royal, Windsor;
Margaret and Cody Pfanstiehl of the Washington Metropolitan Ear;
Maryvonne Simoneau, Le Centre Universitaire Dauphine, Paris;
The Duke of York’s Theatre, London.

User feedback research in the UK was carried out with the help of the following blind clubs, institutions and individuals:

Action for Blind People, London;
The Blind Centre for Northern Ireland;
Blind Club of Barnes;
Blind Club of Twickenham;
Cardiff Institute for the Blind;
St. Dunstan’s, London and Brighton;
Kelvin School, Glasgow;
Dora Kimberley;
Linden Lodge School;
Perthshire and Kinross-shire Society for the Blind;
Resource Centre for the Blind, Glasgow;
Royal National Institute for the Blind, New College, Worcester;
Royal National Institute for the Blind, London;
Royal Blind School, Edinburgh;
Sir William Wilkinson;
Society for Welfare and Teaching of the Blind, Edinburgh;
The Audetel Feedback Panel;
All those who took part in the national Audetel trial.

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