Welcome to the Audio Description Website
This website is designed to give you a comprehensive view of what is happening in audio description in both Australia and the rest of world. You will find listings of audio description news and products that you can experience direct (especially DVDs and live performances), samples of audio description from other places, including movies and television shows and basic information on how to access audio description, what kind of equipment you need (generally nothing beyond a standard DVD player or television) and where to find out more information.
DBCDE releases submissions to the Media Access Review Discussion Report
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 13:43
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released submissions to the Media Access Review Discussion Report.
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New cinema access system moves to development phase
Friday, 05 March 2010 09:46
SightCine, a Los Angeles based start-up company, has secured development funding to create a prototype of its caption glasses concept. The idea is that the captions are displayed on the screen but are only visible to people wearing the glasses.
Read more: New cinema access system moves to development phase
Four cinema chains respond to access questions
Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:14
An exemption application to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was lodged by Greater Union, Hoyts, Reading and Village cinemas last year. This is to provide an additional 23 cinemas with both audio description and captioning capability. It also proposes retro-fitting the existing 12 cinema locations with audio description capability.
DBCDE releases submissions to the Multichannel Review
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 12:10
The Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released the submissions made to the Discussion Paper on ‘Content and access: The future of program standards and captioning requirements on digital television multi-channels’. Individual submissions can be downloaded from the DBCDE website. Below are summaries of the submissions regarding captioning on multichannels.
Read more: DBCDE releases submissions to the Multichannel Review
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