The best way to make your live arts or entertainment space accessible to blind audiences is by becoming a member of ADI. Membership provides key benefits to your organization, making it easier to provide access AND much-needed information and services to your audience members who are blind or have low vision.
Membership Levels
Partnership
- Annual session (90-minutes) Leadership: The Four Opportunities to Serve the Blind Community
- Annual training session (2-hours) Staff/Volunteer: Welcoming Guests Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
- One website accessibility for the blind assessment
- One onsite audio description hardware/technology assessment
- One walk-thru operations evaluation (2 hours onsite) with one ADI accessibility consultant and one ADI blind user consultant
- Access to ADI best-practice guides, front-of-house online training materials, and webinars
- Up to two, 5-question surveys annually to request feedback and input from members of the blind community on questions submitted by the Member
- 15% discount on additional ADI services including additional in-person training, accessibility audits, custom consultations, blind consumer surveys, and other services provided by ADI to the public
- ADI manages scheduling describers, AD script preparation, coordination of assets, etc.
- AD services discount of standard describer rates
Mentorship
- Annual session (90-minutes) Leadership: The Four Opportunities to Serve the Blind Community
- 10% discount on training session (2-hours) Staff/Volunteer: Welcoming Guests
- One website accessibility for the blind assessment Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision
- One onsite audio description hardware/technology assessment
- One walk-thru operations evaluation (2 hours onsite) with one ADI accessibility consultant and one ADI blind user consultant
- 10% discount on additional ADI services including additional in-person training, accessibility audits, custom consultations, blind consumer surveys, and other services provided by ADI to the public
- AD services discount of standard describer rates
- 25% off one annual ADI training (Module: Live Audio Description for Theatre and Live Events) for Member’s in-house audio describers, minimum of 2 trainees and maximum of 4. (restrictions apply)