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The ADNA Presents

May 19, 2026

Connor Scott-Gardner has presented at the European Parliament, Westminster, and SXSW. He also goes home, gets tired, and sometimes thinks he hasn't done anything. This podcast will prove that he has done much.

In this first conversation, he talks about what genuine support for blind young people looks like up close, and...


May 5, 2026

Something went wrong during a live show. An aerial performer fell.

The Audio Description professional described it as it happened. Then told the audience the performer was okay.

No script covered that moment. No algorithm was ready for it. A human was paying attention, and that made all the difference.

Dr. Cynthia...


Apr 28, 2026

Josh Miller came to accessibility through telecom, media consulting, and a business school project at MIT.

That project ran headfirst into a quote so high it would have eaten up half the program's annual budget.

That collision between intention and financial reality is where 3Play Media was born.

19 years later,...


Apr 21, 2026

Dr. Cynthia Bennett is a blind researcher at Google who studies the AI systems that are supposed to serve blind people. She found out blind people were making Audio Description, and she, a blind person, had no idea. That gap changed how she works. In this conversation, we get into what authentic representation...


Apr 14, 2026

Alex Howard and Lee Pugsley are back on The ADNA Presents, and a lot has changed since their first visit.

The Darkroom podcast hosts and co-founders of the Blind Film Critic Society join Roy Samuelson for a conversation about what it means when blind critics evaluate Audio Description -- not just as consumers, but as...