AUSTRIAN FEDERATION OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED

AUSTRIAN FEDERATIONOF THE BLINDAND PARTIALLY SIGHTEDCredit: ORFIt is about time for a scientific study: How many of the 318,000 blind and partially sightedpeople in Austria know of the audio description offers? How many of them make use of them?What kind of broadcasts do they consume? Such a scientific study we are now initiating incooperation with the institute for scientific communications at the University of Vienna.Before coming to the end of my presentation, I would like to inform you about a few key pointsrelated to the audio description in Austria:4Segment channels and internetThe previous versions of the law concerned only the main channels ORF one and ORF 2.Segment channels of the public broadcasting service like ORF III and ORF SPORT + are notaccessible, also the ORF TVarchive on the internet is only partly accessible.Movie promotionIn our country there are basically three major funding agencies, which support the accessibilityof films financially: The Austrian Film Institute, the Television Fund Austria and the filmpromotion funds of the Austrian federal state, of which the biggest one is the Vienna FilmFund.HOUSE OF VISION, A-1130 Vienna, Hietzinger Kai 85, Phone +43 1 982 75 84 – 202 or +43 664 140 11 77presse@blindenverband.at www.blindenverband.at