Q&A: Accessible on-demand video services
Media Access Australia spoke with Dr Katie Ellis, Senior Research Fellow at the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University ahead of her presentations on Netflix, audio description...
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Video on demand services still lack captions
A recent article on the VOD Professional website highlights that fact that most video on demand (VOD) services in the UK still lack closed captions.In ‘What’s the State of Subtitling in the VOD...
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Netflix introduces audio description
Daredevil, a TV series about a blind superhero, has become the first program on Netflix to have audio description for people who are blind or vision impaired.Advocacy groups in the US, including the...
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iTunes Australia offering audio described movies
There has been a quiet, small development in the availability of audio described movies from Apple iTunes in Australia.There are a number of Disney movies, including Cars 2, Brave, Monsters Inc, Up and...
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Movies with AD on iTunes, May 2016
Last month we provided an up-to-date list of audio described (AD) movies in the Australian iTunes store. Some of the listed titles had specific versions that were marked: (For blind viewers). However,...
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