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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