[vicsireland] Re: BBC Opens Up iPlayer To Audio Description.
- From: "Paul Dromey" <pdromey@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:01:13 +0100
Hi Tim.
To be welcomed but it sounds like it will be of any use to those of us
outside the BBC license paying area. As the press release says: So for us
to leave blind people out of this revolution in how people watch TV would go
against our fundamental aim to make our content and services available to
all licence fee payers, regardless of their age, abilities or disabilities."
Paul
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Subject: [vicsireland] BBC Opens Up iPlayer To Audio Description.
Hi,
Some might find the below useful.
Tim
The BBC's hugely popular iPlayer software will now carry approximately 25
hours per week of the broadcaster's audio described TV programmes, giving
visually impaired users access to a range of well-known shows including 'Dr
Who', 'Little Britain' and some children's programmes.
Audio descriptions assist vision-impaired people by using gaps between
dialogue to describe what is happening in a programme. Until now none of the
BBC's audio described output has been available on the iPlayer but there are
now plans to make all such programmes available on the system over the next
few months, storing them in a new category on the iPlayer site (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/audiodescribed ).
Jonathan Hassell, head of audience experience and usability at the BBC, told
E-Access Bulletin: "The whole point of iPlayer is to allow our audiences to
consume our programmes however, wherever and whenever they want. So for us
to leave blind people out of this revolution in how people watch TV would go
against our fundamental aim to make our content and services available to
all licence fee payers, regardless of their age, abilities or disabilities."
The Royal National Institute of Blind People has described the move as "a
major breakthrough and great leap forward for blind and partially sighted
people".
Earlier this month, the iPlayer also won the ACCESS-IT@Home award (
http://www.access-it-events.org/2009_access_it_awards.php ) for best
ICT-based project, product or service that advances independent living for
people with disabilities or the elderly.
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