Access Hound
Access Hound
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Services
Strategic Leadership in Accessibility
Our Fractional Accessibility Leadership service helps you streamline workflows, reduce backlogs, and drive strategic initiatives with guidance from seasoned accessibility leaders.Innovative Audio Description Software
We created the world’s first software suite dedicated to static Audio Description, along with the first GenAI toolkit designed to support AD writers, both of which have become essential infrastructure transforming production and review processes.Audio Description Training & Workshops
We’ve trained more than 1,000 professionals in writing impactful, accurate Audio Description. From half-day intensives to week-long workshops and hackathon-style events, our training creates enduring organizational impacts.Audio Description Production / Review
Our production and review services ensure Audio Description is seamlessly integrated into your media products, helping you to reach wider audiences and to support authentic inclusion for people who are DeafBlind, or blind, or who have low-vision.Web & Mobile Accessibility Remediation
As web accessibility laws and WCAG standards grow more complex, our experts audit, remediate, and future-proof your websites and mobile apps so that everyone can access your content with confidence and in the ways that they want. -
Tools
Audio Description Production
- The UniDescription Software Suite The UniDescription Software Suite powers Audio Description worldwide—used by 200+ National Park Service sites across 45 states, cited in 50+ peer-reviewed studies, and backed by more than $1 million in federal and corporate support, including Google.
AI Tools
- Access Hound Guidedogs The Guidedogs can coach you as an Audio Description writer or provide an instant focus group on your writing, trained on the latest research. No prompt engineering required.
- Journalism Watchdogs GenAI-powered feedback for writing nonfiction descriptions like a journalist, akin to the services of a professional writing coach, aimed at helping developing writers to become more succinct, focused, and descriptive.
Custom & Private
- Contact Us We specialize in creating custom accessibility tools for you and your organization to help with your specific need.
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About
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Guidedogs
Describe Now
Whatever your starting point or experience, paste descriptive text or upload an image, pick your 'dogs, and release the hounds!Guidedogs Overview
The Guidedogs can coach you as an Audio Description writer or provide an instant focus group on your writing, trained on the latest research. No prompt engineering required.API
This JSON REST API allows you to send over images and receive back responses from each of our 'dogs, just like normal, only at scale. Ideal for large digital collections.Our Dogs
The Access Hound Guidedogs were created as AI-powered writing coaches aimed at helping people create better Audio Description. These 'Dogs love people and do not want to replace anyone in this writing process. They instead want to support writers by providing high-quality feedback on draft descriptions.