This latest development in audio description comes three months after passionate accessible media advocate Phillip Chalker launched a Change.org petition calling on iTunes to provide more movies with Audio Description for people who are blind or vision impaired.
The Australian iTunes store introduced audio description for five Pixar movies in September last year. However, the number of AD films available at this popular online portal for Australian audiences has grown considerably since then, and particularly over the past two months.
As at April 2016, movies in the Australian iTunes store that feature AD are listed alphabetically below – presented within the categories found on iTunes:
KIDS & FAMILY
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Brave (For blind viewers)
Cars 2 (For blind viewers)
Despicable Me
Dr. Seuss' the Lorax
Finding Nemo (For blind viewers)
Inside Out (2015)
Up (For blind viewers)
Monsters Inc (For blind viewers)
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie
The Good Dinosaur
SCI-FI & FANTASY
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The 5th Wave
The Martian
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
ACTION & ADVENTURE
Ant Man
Hitman: Agent 47
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Terminator Genisys
DRAMA
Anomalisa
Bridge of Spies
Far from the Madding Crowd
Joy
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Paper Towns
The Big Short
The Finest Hours (2016)
The Longest Ride
The Revenant
True Story
COMEDY
Aloha
Daddy's Home
Home
Spy
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Wolf of Wall Street
Unfinished Business
INDEPENDENT
Mistress America
THRILLER
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Find out more information on audio description in the arts on the Media Access Australia website.
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