The Australian government’s failure to roll out technology that enables television access for 450,000 blind or visually impaired Australians appears to breach anti-discrimination laws, according to the disability commissioner.
Australia lags well behind the rest of the world in its deployment of audio descriptive technology, which narrates television to blind and visually impaired audiences to improve equal access.
Blindness groups have been campaigning for the technology for 20 years, and a government report recommended it be introduced a decade ago.