{"id":885246,"date":"2024-12-07T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=885246"},"modified":"2024-12-07T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T03:18:56","slug":"lack-of-accessibility-features-in-films-delhi-hc-seeks-response-of-centre-movie-makers-ott-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/07\/lack-of-accessibility-features-in-films-delhi-hc-seeks-response-of-centre-movie-makers-ott-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of accessibility features in films: Delhi HC seeks response of Centre, movie makers, OTT platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought responses from the Union government, production houses, and the OTT platform of Amazon on a plea by visually challenged lawyers seeking to incorporate audio description and other accessibility features in movies released on OTT platforms and big screens. <\/p>\n<p>The petition was moved by Akshat Baldwa, a final-year student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and disability activist Rahul Bajaj. They contended that \u201cthe failure to incorporate accessibility features in Stree 2 and Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha constitutes a violation of statutory and constitutional rights.\u201d In another petition by Bajaj, similar facilities have been demanded for the recent theatrical release Pushpa 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought responses from the Union government, production houses, and the OTT platform of Amazon on a plea by visually challenged lawyers seeking to incorporate audio description and other accessibility features in movies released on OTT platforms and big screens. The petition was moved by Akshat Baldwa, a final-year student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and disability activist Rahul Bajaj. They contended that \u201cthe failure to incorporate accessibility features in Stree 2 and Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha constitutes a violation of statutory and constitutional rights.\u201d In another petition by Bajaj, similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}