In April 2015, the ABC began a 15-month trial of audio description services on selected programs on its television catch-up service, iview.
The trial has now finished and no further audio-described programs will be produced for the iview platform.
In the near future, the ABC will prepare a report on the trial for review by the Department of Communications. Vision Australia is leading the preparation of a joint report to provide feedback from the blindness and low vision community.
If you watched any audio-described programs during the trial we’d like to hear from you. Even if you didn’t join in the trial we’d still like to hear from you.
You can submit your feedback via email to [email protected] by Friday August 26.
Here are some suggested questions you might like to consider when preparing your feedback:
- How often did you use the audio description on iview?
- Was the audio description service useful?
- Was there a particular type of program or specific program that you watched more than others?
- Was it easy to find information, for example, which programs were audio described?
- Were there things that made it difficult or impossible for you to participate in the trial?If you participated in the trial of audio description on ABC1 in 2012, how do you think the iview trial compared with it?
- What would you like to see happen now, for example, a permanent audio description service on iview or audio description on free-to-air television.