The CCC Group (Carousel Cinema Captions) has a page on free social networking website Facebook. Administrated by local captioned movie fans, it provides people with another opportunity to find out what is happening at Hoyts Carousel and share opinions, offers and news as they become available.
The session will cover how audio description can improve access to media such as TV, cinema, DVDs and the arts, for people who are blind or vision impaired.
Presented by Blind Citizens Australia and Media Access Australia, the session will let you know how audio description can help you and how and where you can find it.
Attendees will:
Under the terms of the settlement, each chain must ensure that every location in Massachusetts is equipped with accessible technology that will provide meaningful access to the hearing and vision impaired, including captioning and audio description technology. The choice of technology has been left to the cinemas and is open to change as technology develops, but it is most likely the cinemas will use Rear Window Captioning and DVS Theatrical for audio description.
At this stage there is no public schedule that will tell us when each location will be made accessible. Although there are rumours around the current 12 locations being upgraded first of all, this has not been confirmed.
