After TFC matches, Toulouse allows blind and partially sighted people to experience those of another club
By David Saint-Sernin
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After Toulouse FC matches since Augustvisually impaired people can experience the emotions of sporting events at a second club in the Pink City up close.
The turn of Fenix Toulouse Handball
On Thursday October 20, 2022, Toulouse Métropole voted to deploy its audio description service for sporting events at matches of the Fenix Toulouse Handball.
In fact, the device has already been available to Fenix supporters since September.
Through receivers
As a reminder, audio description is a technique that makes matches accessible to blind or visually impaired people thanks to receivers through which they receive live comments from people who follow the match and comment on it. Thanks to this concept, visually impaired or blind people in Toulouse can therefore immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the Stadium and the Palais-des-Sports, while listening to detailed commentary on the match as if they were listening to the radio.
Also useful for beginners
“This device can also allow neophytes of a sport to more easily understand the subtleties thanks to these extremely detailed comments”, adds Toulouse Métropole.
The commentators are students from the school of journalism who are trained for the exercise.
Fenix should not be the last club to benefit from this service. Toulouse Métropole announces this Thursday that the same type of partnership has been retained with Stade Toulousain, Toulouse Métropole Basket and Toulouse Olympique XIII.
How to benefit from it?
To access the service, no prior procedure is necessary. Only the purchase of a ticket for the meeting. Once there, all you have to do is pick up the necessary equipment directly inside the stadiums.
A first in 2019
It was in the spring of 2019 that the first experimentation with audio description took place within a Toulouse club, Stade Toulousain at the time. This innovative device was then set up by students from the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès.
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