A trio that has been working together for 20 years, the leadership team of Access Hound have worked on hundreds of projects together. From founding the UniDescription Project, running a web development company, and building hundreds of websites for companies across dozens of sectors, Access Hound was founded by brothers Brett and Joe Oppegaard and trusted partner Stewart McCullough. Brett, the university professor, with a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric, providing the academic expertise on media-accessibility topics, Joe, the computer programmer, with decades of experience as a CTO, providing the programming expertise and creating novel media-accessibility tools, and Stewart, the CEO, with the big picture and logistical knowledge to run a viable company, bringing together everything into a valuable service.
Together — and with a lot of help from a broad community of supporters around the world, especially within the U.S. National Park Service and the American Council of the Blind — the Access Hound team has led media-accessibility initiatives throughout the United States and also in other countries around the world seeking to make more-inclusive media, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy.
Our mission is to co-create, with people who are blind, a more-accessible future by providing Audio Description training and production services, plus extremely useful Open Access, Open Source webtools that help users to audio describe any type of inaccessible visual media, including photographs, maps, charts, tables, brochures, wall texts, wayside signs, exhibits, etc., in a prompt and professional manner. Those descriptions also get heard and validated by representative members of the target audience before being released to the general public, keeping human sensibilities at the forefront of the production process.
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