{"id":1519,"date":"2019-02-12T00:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2019-02-12T00:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:10:28","slug":"greens-introduce-bill-for-audio-description-on-australian-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/greens-introduce-bill-for-audio-description-on-australian-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"GREENS INTRODUCE BILL FOR AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON AUSTRALIAN TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John will join representatives from an alliance of disability, consumer and media organisations, researchers and audio description providers to advocate for the introduction of audio description on Australian television.<br \/>\nSenator Steele-John will today introduce the\u00a0<em>Broadcasting Services Amendment (Audio Description) Bill 2018\u00a0<\/em>to the Senate, which\u00a0if passed would enable equal access to television for the 385,000 people in Australia who are blind or have low vision.<br \/>\nSenator Steele-John will be joined by former Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes and representatives from\u00a0the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, Blind Citizens Australia, the Centre for Inclusive Design, the Australian Blindness Forum, audio description provider The Substation, Curtin University of Technology and Vision Australia.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John will join representatives from an alliance of disability, consumer and media organisations, researchers and audio description providers to advocate for the introduction of audio description on Australian television. Senator Steele-John will today introduce the\u00a0Broadcasting Services Amendment (Audio Description) Bill 2018\u00a0to the Senate, which\u00a0if passed would enable equal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/12\/greens-introduce-bill-for-audio-description-on-australian-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GREENS INTRODUCE BILL FOR AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON AUSTRALIAN TV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}