Emirates Airline adapts in-flight entertainment for visually impaired travellers

MORE INCLUSIVE: Emirates is adapting part of its in-flight entertainment offering to accommodate visually impaired travellers.

In an industry first, the Dubai-based carrier is introducing an audio description option on part of its in-flight entertainment programming, opening up the content to visually impaired passengers. 

Travellers who are blind or visually impaired can now take advantage of audio description to follow 16 features, all from Disney, including Frozen, Saving Mr Banks, Cars 2, Monsters University, The Avengers, Toy Story 3 and all four Pirates of the Caribbean films. The selection will be expanded in the future, according to Emirates.