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Thank you for joining our Access Hound team! We appreciate you!

And want to pay you appropriately, in a timely manner:

Welcome to Access Hound, the static Audio Description specialists, helping to make the world a more inclusive place, especially for people who cannot see or cannot see well.

Our business mantra, inspired by the adaptability and durability of dogs, is "Survival of the Friendliest." We therefore want you to thoroughly enjoy collaborating with us and vice versa. Part of that mutual admiration, kindness, and respect means we pay our collaborators, and in the way that they want, in a timely manner. We currently have three options of payment methods:

  • PayPal
  • Zelle
  • Physical paper check

If you have worked with us before, and want to continue to be paid in that same way, there is nothing else you need to do. If you want to change the method, just let us know.

(If you are not on the Access Hound team yet but would like to join us, please send an email of interest to Access Hound's Human Resources with a one-page resume. All of our Access Hound reviewers have lived experience with blindness or uncorrectable low-vision).

If you are a new collaborator, we want to make sure you clearly know and feel comfortable in our payment system. For first timers, Access Hound CEO Stewart McCullough will be contacting you, welcoming you to our team, and hearing from you about your preferred payment method.

When you complete an assignment with Access Hound, whatever that is, your Program Manager then is responsible to file the paperwork for Access Hound to process it. You do not have to do anything else.

That means, Step 1, your PM (whoever you were working with on the project) will alert Access Hound that your contribution to the project is complete, and you are ready to be paid. Unless otherwise agreed upon, Access Hound starts this payment clock when your work with the company is complete. Once that clock starts, we might pay you sooner, but our aim is to complete payment to you within 30 days. Please allow us the time to process the paperwork and get you the funds in that timely window, but if you have completed the work, waited 30 days, and still not received your payment, there must be an error in the system somewhere. At that point, please alert us right away, so we can immediately fix it.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please contact McCullough at [email protected].

Thank YOU, again, for your contributions to Access Hound. You are now a part of our pack. We are glad to collaborate with you, and if we can do anything else to make your experience better, please just let us know.

DESCRIBING: A horizontal color photograph. SYNOPSIS: Inside a bright visitor center, three visitors stand at a wood-topped counter facing a uniformed staff member. The staffer, an older man in glasses and a gray short-sleeve shirt with an arrowhead-shaped shoulder patch, works behind two open laptops. The customers lean in and talk, one holding a cane upright. Posters and exhibit panels glow softly in the background, framing the courteous exchange. IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTION: Foreground, left to right: A gray-haired man with a shoulder bag stands slightly behind two others. Next, a man with a close-cropped head, green polo, and a large dark backpack faces the counter; his right hand rests near a slim cane with a black handle, held vertically. Closest to the counter, a man in a white T-shirt and bright blue-framed sunglasses gestures mid-conversation, his head turned toward the staffer. Right side: Behind the counter, an older man in glasses sits or leans forward, hands clasped near a keyboard. He wears a gray uniform shirt with nameplate and an arrowhead-shaped patch on the sleeve. Two laptops, a computer mouse, a pencil cup, and a small tent sign with circular icons sit along the counter’s edge. Background: Light-colored walls and exhibit panels with historic photos create a museumlike atmosphere. Warm daylight and soft focus keep attention on the people. The overall mood is helpful and attentive, as if the group is asking for help and support.

Access Hound Lead Consultant Matt Bullen, left, orients a couple of Washington Council of the Blind members to the front desk at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Access Hound team members can help public places, like national parks, to make audio-described versions of brochures, signs, exhibits, and other important static media offered on-site, including describing photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, and charts.

Contact Access Hound's Stewart McCullough
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