Deaf and Hard of Hearing Australians Fight for Movie Access

In Australia (The Age, December 7, 2009), movie theaters are asking to be exempted from the country's Disability Discrimination Act, for two and a half years. In return for the requested exemption, they are offering to slightly increase the number of movie theaters accessible to deaf and blind people. Presently they offer access in just 12 theaters, and claim they are doing it in "good faith." They would increase this to 35 theaters, but one parent quoted in the article calls that offer a "joke."