CDIM 102 - Audio Description

Who Teaches CDIM 102?

Margot Whitfield

Margot Whitfield (MMSt, BFA, Ontario Certified Teacher) has been a research associate at Toronto Metropolitan University's Inclusive Media and Design Centre since 2010. She has over 10 years of experience in recruiting diverse groups of people for user studies with blind and Deaf users, film and theatre directors, scriptwriters, and film festival organizers and theatres, including Mirvish Productions. She is passionate about access to arts and culture and has consulted on accessible video productions for both Toronto Metropolitan and the Ontario Arts Council.

Margot is proficient in basic American Sign Language. She has contributed to International Standards on audio description (ISO/IEC TS 20071-21:2015 Information technology — User interface component accessibility — Part 21: Guidance on audio descriptions) and has co-authored eight peer-reviewed journals.

Marie-Catherine Rombaut

Marie-Catherine Rombaut is a PhD candidate at Université Laval. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on French audio description in Quebec, Belgium, and France from intermediality, film studies, and users’ perspectives. She is a French freelance captionist and has many years of experience in teaching. She has taught several courses at Toronto Metropolitan University; at The Chang School, she co-teaches Audio Description.