A story told primarily through visual elements, using a series of messages like graphics, images, pictures, or videos. Visual storytelling is an additional tool which can be used to describe the story of your performance to your audience. This tool reduces your reliance on language comprehension and allows you to be more creative in your storytelling.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

An auditory description of visual elements and the action in a video so that those who are blind or partially sighted can follow the action as it happens. These descriptions are interspersed amongst any dialogue happening in the video.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

A person with specialized training who can safely guide a blind or partially sighted person through an unknown environment. They use both physical guiding techniques as well as verbal description of where an item is situated when the team is standing still.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

Assistive devices used to enhance a person’s level of mobility. These are tools that add to their quality of life rather than ‘binding’, ‘confining’, or ‘limiting’ them.

Small Cost ($100-500)
Less than a week

An intimacy director or coordinator is a choreographer, an advocate for actors, and a liaison between actors and production for scenes that involve nudity / hyper-exposed work, simulated sex acts, and/or intimate physical contact.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

A person hired to facilitate communication and who works to ensure that both parties feel their needs are being heard and respected.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

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Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

Community members with lived experience who are paid to offer knowledge and experience to the organization that hired them. Community consultants will use their knowledge and understanding of their community to guide decision making.

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

The live, word for word translation of speech and sound into text, which allows a person who is d/Deaf or hard of hearing, people learning the language, as well as neurodivergent individuals to follow what is being said aloud. CART is a service where a specially trained stenographer listens to what is being said and types it, so it can be read on-screen (also known as real-time stenography).

Small Cost ($100-500)
1 month

A form of enhanced narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements, such as scene changes, settings, costumes, physical movement, and more. It is often described as speaking pictorially. Used to "fill in the gaps" for those who cannot see the content.

Small Cost ($100-500)
Less than a week