To wit, the Paralympics are orders of magnitude behind the zeitgeist in terms of attention compared to the Olympics.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21984550

Article by Steven Aquino

An excerpt follows:

For sporting events like the Olympics and Paralympics, … it’s paramount the (audio describer) be knowledgeable of the sport they’re describing; the quality would be otherwise sullied if the describer didn’t, for example, know the intricacies of basketball or anything else. The information conveyed has to be delivered with the proper context behind it in order for a Blind or low vision person to visualize a moment in their mind.