by Jan Stankus
Courtesy of ©ITV for Masterpiece
Detective Hercule Poirot stares at the porter. Shadows accent his thick arched eyebrows, piercing dark eyes, and tight thin lips. His neat, waxed moustache curls up at the corners.
-From Murder on the Orient Express starring David Suchet.
When I tell people I’m a Describer, they usually say something like, “Oh! You write those words that appear on the bottom of the TV screen!” Then I patiently say, “No. That’s captioning. Description is different. Description makes TV-programs, films, art exhibits, and more accessible to people who are blind or who have low vision.”
