Cinema for the Blind: Collection of Narrated Films and Free Audiobooks

Traditional entertainment media can be very unfair to blind audiences, but we are slowly seeing more adapted content. This includes both books and movies, and if you've ever wondered where to start looking, today we'll recommend a portal that updates several times a month, divides its posts into handy categories, and has a format designed to be friendly with automatic reading software.

I've said it on several occasions: we are truly privileged to have relatively intact vision. Numerous tools are available to us with all their potential, without difficulties or restrictions. At the same time, entertainment is abundant and easy to obtain. That forces us to ask a very complex question: How does a blind person navigate the Web? Both Windows and other operating systems (whether mobile or not) have accessibility options that enlarge on-screen information (when blindness is partial) or narrate content automatically, but what interests us today is finding that content. Where are the audiobooks? What about cinema for the blind?

Cinema for the Blind

The portal audiolibrosgratis.com does its best to offer both. Dedicated entirely to people with visual disabilities, you'll find a list of films dubbed into Spanish. Each one has a brief summary, and a small player at the bottom. The audio of the films is usually stored on the Ivoox platform, and although there is no major limitation, when downloading we must go to its official page. Fortunately, the administrator of audiolibrosgratis.com has done the work and includes a direct link to the corresponding Ivoox section.

On the audiobook side, the database is more irregular. There appear classics like Robinson Crusoe, The Iliad, and The Hobbit, but it also suffers from broken links and redirects that only inject advertising. Personally, I recommend that searches within the portal be limited to cinema for the blind. If the original copy of the audio is still stored on Ivoox, it won't be hard to find.

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