Audio description introduced in four Melbourne cinemas

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Monday, 5 March 2012 11:59am

Village Cinemas has commenced audio description in four of its suburban Melbourne complexes, greatly increasing the number of accessible cinemas for people across the city who are blind and vision impaired.

The Village complexes of Knox, Crown, Southland and Jam Factory have all in recent weeks installed the Doremi Fidelio audio description system to complement the Doremi CaptiView system for captioning. Accessible movies with both components are now shown on a number of screens at each location, depending on the number of screens in the entire complex. Knox, Southland and Jam Factory show captions and audio description on three screens each and Crown shows them on two screens. Being a complex of 13 screens in total, Crown will roll out one more accessible screen before the end of 2014.

The installations are part of the Federal Government’s Cinema Access Implementation Plan, which outlines a four-year strategy to ensure people who are Deaf, hearing impaired, blind or vision impaired can enjoy the cinema experience with family and friends.

Doremi’s Fidelio audio description system has recently been given Standards Australia certification, giving the go-ahead for cinemas currently showing captions only to also install the audio description component.

Find out the cinema locations near you that are showing movies with captions and audio description.


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