[openyourmind] blindy.tv
- From: anna-maria foskolou <firefly.tinos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OPENYOURMIND@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:37:08 +0300
http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/general/blindytv-a-new-online-audio-description-service
BLINDY.TV: A NEW ONLINE AUDIO DESCRIPTION SERVICE
Monday, 25 February 2013 2:20pm
Blindy.TV, which describes itself as “your accessible couch potato
experience”, is a new free online service created by blind people.
Aiming to make up for the lack of audio description online, it provides
five channels of described programming which can be listened to on its
built-in media player, or on an external player.
According to the Blindy.TV website, “The entire service is a labor of
love. Blindy.TV has no assets. The server space, bandwidth, content
production, and everything else that collectively forms Blindy.TV are
provided through the uncompensated contributions of like-minded people.
We have no revenue, and we don't accept any cash donations.”
The programs available on Blindy.TV come from a variety of sources, and
include programs recorded off air in locations where audio description
is available. There are currently five channels on Blindy.TV: Comedy,
Drama, Scifi, Brain and ETC. All programs, which are generally older
episodes of TV series, are 30 or 60 minutes long and interspersed with
news segments, comedy skits and music.
The creators of Blindy.TV see it as a stopgap measure, until the
mainstream media embrace audio description. “We hope that you will enjoy
what we have made,” they write, “but we don't want people to forget that
equal access to mainstream media, not some Blindy TV, is the real goal.”
In Australia, the ABC has delivered a report on the technical aspects of
the audio description trial carried out on ABC1 between August and
November 2012. The Federal Government has yet to release the report, or
make recommendations about a regular audio description service on
Australian television.
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