Experiencing audio description with Belinda Kerslake

Audio description has often been referred to as the poor cousin of captioning.  Captioning has a longer technological history, and had been successfully established on a number of formats long before audio description was commercially developed.  As an access feature for people with sensory impairments, it has a lot of catching up to do to be considered equally within the media industry.

This week on Vision Australia Radio Belinda Kerslake, Marketing and Communications Manager at Media Access Australia spoke about the progress of audio description services in Australia. She also talked played a demonstration from The Castle for those listeners who have never heard audio description before.