Promote Unity Through Accessibility

Inclusive Media - the Access Hound Way

The Access Hound team has been making accessible public media at the highest levels of legal and ethical conformance for more than a decade, including collaborations with about 200 national parks as well as other types of public attractions, including aquariums, botanical gardens, libraries, museums, nonprofit organizations, performing arts centers, public art collections, state parks, wildlife refuges, and zoos.

The team’s leader, Dr. Brett Oppegaard, who also serves as a Professor at the University of Hawai’i, has been the principal investigator on multiple federal grants related to media accessibility, with support for his research and community outreach provided by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, and the U.S. National Park Service, as well as from accessibility-oriented corporations, such as Google.

Most distinctively, the UniD team grounds its approaches to complex accessibility issues in the empirical research of Dr. Oppegaard and other world leaders in this area. In other words, we do not guess. We research and test. With our higher purpose of making the world a more-accessible place, we use the financial support we receive on this project to build and freely give away robust Open-Access, Open-Source webtools aimed at improving Audio Description through production and dissemination software. We also create custom and innovative training workshops of all types.