Audio description on Australian TV: ABC iview trial, who's involved and what's next

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28 September, 2014

The Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, has quietly announced that there is no planned audio description service for the ABC. However, a trial for audio description will commence on the ABC’s catch up service, iview, in April 2015. Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley discusses why another trial is needed, how blind and vision impaired people will be involved and what's next for audio description on TV in Australia.

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