It has also been announced that the captioning service will be extended to the Sky News Business Channel (but not date has been released).
Sky News uses Ai-Media to live caption its programs and provided live caption coverage of the Federal election last Saturday, 21 August.
The captioning is provided by AI Media and the service is a preview of a soon to be launched regular captioning service on Sky News.
Sky News is available through FOXTEL and AUSTAR.
BBC Radio 4 program In Touch: News for Blind People has an interview with Ed Vaizey, the UK Communications Minister. In it he talks about the voluntary approach to audio description quotas on television.
Following a long-running campaign by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the UK government has announced its support for a 20% target for audio description (AD) on television.
The announcement follows a review into access services conducted by the UK communications regulator Ofcom in 2009. Ofcom canvassed three options for the future of AD: leaving the target at its current 10%, increasing it to 20% over all channels, or increasing it to 20% on the 10 public service broadcasting channels.
