Audio Descriptive Commentary will be available at every football match when Australia and New Zealand host the FIFA Women's World Cup this year. Here's how it works.
Australian blind and low-vision women's tennis champion Courtney Webeck and national vision-impaired futsal player Oscar Stubbs.Oscar Stubbs has been playing sports ever since he can remember and follows his favourite teams just as avidly.
“Everybody reacts around us when something’s happened in the game, but we don’t really know what’s happened until the replay.” Being able to know what’s going on at the exact time instead of nagging someone around us … that would be amazing.His friend and fellow athlete Courtney Webeck agrees. She was born legally blind and is Australia’s current blind and low-vision tennis champion.
Unlike TV, or even radio commentary, Audio Descriptive Commentary focuses on describing each movement of the ball in relation to the rest of the field and the key moves of players. The commentary can include players' body language, clothing and facial expressions, and even fan and coach behaviour. He recalls a training exercise where he had to draw the movement of the ball on a whiteboard based purely on the descriptive commentary of another trainee, without seeing the game itself.
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