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"textContent": "\n\nIn an Agatha Christie adaptation, a character forces a polite grin. An offscreen voice murmurs: \"Her smile doesn't reach her eyes.\" That line isn't in Christie's book. It was written by an audio describer — one of the mostly anonymous writers who narrate visual details for blind and low-vision viewers in the gaps between dialogue. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Turn on audio description even if you can see fine — it makes TV better appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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