[Electronics-talk] Netflicks introducing audio description for theblind

[Jim Barbour]

Here's a link to Netflx's blog post that talks about audio description

http://blog.netflix.com/2015/04/netflix-begins-audio-description-for.html

I use audio description on my iPhone's Netflix app, so you definately don't need a PC.

The one other piece of troubleshooting I can offer is that on whatever device you want audio description, you need to logout of netflix and then log back in.

The steps for getting audio description going are...

   1) Find a TV show that has audio description.  I know "House of Cards" and "Daredevel" do.  The blog post lists others.
   
   2) Start playing the show.  i.e. start watching it without Audio Description.

   3) When the show or movie is playing, flick around the screen until you find the language options button.  Double tap on it.

   4) A screen of language options will come up and you need to selectj an audio option.  The one you want is "English with description" options.

If you can't get to the language options screen, let us know and we can help.

If you don't see english with description as an option, then logout
and log back into Netflix and try again.

Hope this helps,

Jim

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:51:03AM -0500, Ray Foret Jr via Electronics-talk wrote:
> Totally wrong.  You do not have to log in on your PC or Mac.  All you have to do is watch on your prefered device and, when you start playing, access the audio menu and from there, choose English with Audio description.
> 
> The Web site's value serves to indicate what programs offer audio description.
> 
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
> 
> Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user!
> 
> Sent from my Mac,
> the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in
> 
> > On Jun 21, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Annette Carr via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > My limited understanding of the audio captions is that you can only identify
> > movies/programs with audio captioning when you log in from a PC, you then
> > have to place the movie/program in your cue, and then when you are watching
> > the movie/program from your preferred device you have to turn on the feature
> > as described earlier on this list every time you want to use the feature. 
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Annette
> > 
> > 
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> > Behalf Of cheez via Electronics-talk
> > Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 3:01 AM
> > To: Poppa Bear; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> > Cc: cheez
> > Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Netflicks introducing audio description for
> > theblind
> > 
> > Sorry, Papa, but I got the same announcement about Netflix's not going after
> > the Seinfeld Show.
> > It does mention the app in the title when the site opened.  But that's all.
> > So I'm wondering if there is a special Netflix app that I need do download
> > from the Apps Store.
> > Vince
> > 
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> > To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'" 
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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:01 PM
> > Subject: [Electronics-talk] Netflicks introducing audio description for
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> > 
> >> Here is the link talking about the audio descriptions on the Net 
> >> flicks original series.
> >> http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/14/technology/netflix-visually-impaired/
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