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Emirates has worked closed with Walt Disney Studios to supply closed captioned content since 2007. In the month of August alone, there will be over 50 movies with closed captions for the Deaf and hearing impaired. To continue Emirates’ commitment to exceptional customer service, audio description will be introduced on 16 Disney movies, allowing people with vision impairment to listen to the visual narration soundtrack.

Some of Seven’s most popular programs including Winners and Losers and A Place to Call Home remain uncaptioned online. My Kitchen Rules and Home and Away are currently the only Australian programs that have captions available on Plus7.

Judith Garman, a researcher in the UK has done extensive work in this area. “Captions and audio description are a metaphorical ramp and provide a different kind of value to people on the autistic spectrum,” wrote Garman in 2011.

Captioning was launched on the service to coincide with the beginning of the 2014 rating season in February. All of the major shows on Seven now have captions on Plus7, including Home and Away, Revenge, Downton Abbey, Resurrection and My Kitchen Rules. Yahoo7, which manages the service, is planning further improvements to it in the future.

To turn on captions on Plus7: