Visitors of the Scottsbluff National Monument now have a new way to enjoy the park with an audio version of the brochure.
Earlier this month staff from Scotts Bluff National Monument participated in a national project called the UniDescription Project.
Ranger Eric Grunwald says The project helped create an audio brochure to help the blind and visually impaired.
“So when visitors come to Scottsbluff National Monument, they get one of these brochures and there’s people who go to national parks over all over the country that collect these things. But if you’re a blind visitor or a visually impaired visitor, obviously you can’t read what’s on here,” explains Grunwald.
You can’t see the images that are on here. And so what we did over the course of the descriptive-thon, which was February 6-8th, and as a team, there was ten of us, we had members from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Forest Theater over in Washington, D.C., members of the Council of the American Council for the Blind, the Blind Veterans Association, of course, people from Scottsbluff National Monument. And what we did as a team was we worked together to come up with audio descriptions of the William Henry Jackson paintings that you see in the brochure, some of the photographs. And probably the most challenging thing that we worked on was an audio description of the map that people use for finding their way around in the monument.”
You can find the audio brochure on the UniDescription app available for iOS or Android or it can be found on the SBNM website.
