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Audio Description Solutions is headed by William V. Patterson who has more than 25 years experience in the field of arts accessibility. He began working with Margaret and Cody Pfanstiehl two years after they developed the art and technique of audio description in 1981. He created the first audio description service for live theatre performances on a college campus at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1983. Patterson has written and narrated description soundtracks for PBS American Playhouse productions as part of the nationally broadcast pilot of WGBH's Descriptive Video Service (DVS ), for numerous films and videos for the National Park Service, other government agencies, and production companies. He has trained audio describers and presented audio description workshops in communities across the United States. One of Patterson's notable audio description soundtracks is for award-winning documentary Black Friday: The Johnstown Flood of 1889 for the Johnstown Flood National Memorial operated by the National Park Service in South Fork, Pennsylvania. Patterson's significant work with museums and exhibits includes writing the random access audio descriptions of exhibits at the Cultural Heritage Center of the Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society, serving as a major writer for random access audio descriptions of exhibits at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut and writing and narrating audio description cassette tours of the...

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