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Audio Description for outdoor activities
Providing audio description training to homeless elder to be the tour guide and offering “outdoor described tours” for the visually impaired elderly
ABOUT
Year Established: 2017
Beneficiaries: Visually impaired elderly and homeless elderly
| Outdoor described tours allow visually impaired elderlies to get in touch with nature |
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Most of the “community guided tours” are inaccessible to the visually impaired people, as the tours do not provide any audio description, nor tactile props
- Majority of homeless people have relatively low education level, making them usually unemployed and sometimes finding it hard to integrate into society
SOCIAL INNOVATION
- Provide “outdoor described tours” for elderly with visual impairment. Audio description, tactile props and diagrams will be used to let the participants learn about the architecture and surroundings through sound and touch
EXPECTED SOCIAL IMPACT
 | 50 visually impaired elderly to be the participants of the tours |
 | 3+ elder tour guides from the Christian Concern for the Homeless Association to receive professional audio description training |
 | 3+ people to receive professional audio description training and serve Audio Description Association (Hong Kong) |
BUSINESS MODEL
Audio Description Services for Outdoor Activities receives participant fees from joining the outdoor described tours
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Outdoor described tours
Audio description and tactile props will be used in tours for elderly with visual impairment to assist their comprehension of architecture and surroundings
Training workshops to homeless people
Elder tour guides from the Christian Concern for the Homeless Association will receive trainings on professional audio description to improve their language skills and increase their income from community tours