Love Island: Do ITV show's new audio descriptions go far enough?

Love Island is backmost for its 10th series.

And portion it mightiness person been connected screens since 2015, this summertime there's a alteration for unsighted and visually impaired fans of the show.

For the archetypal clip contestants person provided audio description, describing however they look, their tegument code and outfits.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People praised ITV, calling the determination "a singular illustration for the industry".

"I'm a tall, mixed contention woman, I'm 28 years old, half-Swedish, half-Somali," big Maya Jama says successful her audio description.

"I person agelong brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes," she adds, saying that she likes to deterioration colourful apparel and that she's smiley and enthusiastic.

Ron Hall, who's unsighted successful 1 eye, was the show's archetypal visually impaired contestant during this year's wintertime version.

The 25-year-old thinks ITV are making a affirmative "first step" erstwhile it comes to accessibility.

"It's rather a bully commencement that the spot that gave maine a level is present pursuing connected from maine being visually impaired and helping others arsenic well," helium tells BBC Newsbeat.

"Although I'd accidental it's rather a large group, radical bash hide astir the unsighted and visually impaired, due to the fact that radical conscionable unrecorded time to time and ticker it normally.

"So it's bully that they're taking the archetypal step."

Connor Scott-Gardner, who is blind, agrees and thinks it's bully ITV are starting to deliberation of fans similar himself.

"I truly look guardant to the full play to beryllium honest," the 29-year-old says.

"In presumption of audio description, I deliberation it's a large measurement that ITV are taking and providing an constituent of audio statement for unsighted fans.

"I person checked retired the idiosyncratic audio descriptions and I deliberation it's absorbing - it's decidedly not thing I expected."

But Abi James-Miller, who's a large Love Island fan, thinks ITV could spell further to heighten the acquisition for unsighted and visually impaired viewers.

The 24-year-old is visually impaired and often messages different fans connected Twitter to find retired what's happening connected screen.

While the contestants and big person described themselves, and there's a villa tour, there's nary audio statement disposable for each episode.

Other world shows, similar Too Hot To Handle and Naked Attraction, connection audio descriptions.

"I consciousness the descriptions they've done don't spell acold capable to really heighten the acquisition arsenic a watcher," Abi says.

"I tin find retired who they are, if they've got a tattoo, but you privation to cognize the drama, that's wherefore I'm watching it.

"I deliberation we request much integrated audio descriptions successful Iain Stirling's presenting and his script."

ITV says the quality of Love Island "means that determination is precise small abstraction wrong the programme to adhd accepted audio statement and nary clip up of transmission to constitute and grounds it".

"This is wherefore we were truthful keen to make this further content," it says.

Abi besides says the amusement should see the audio descriptions connected the channel's streaming work ITVX, alternatively of YouTube, truthful they're easier and little time-consuming for radical to access.

ITV told Newsbeat it's looking to determination further audio descriptions connected to ITVX successful the future.

Like Abi, Connor thinks determination needs to beryllium much audio descriptions of unrecorded and pre-recorded shows - Love Island is usually pre-recorded but the last is unrecorded - crossed the industry.

"I don't deliberation it's perfect, but I deliberation immoderate propulsion towards accessibility has to beryllium a bully thing," helium says.

"And we request to presumption it arsenic a affirmative arsenic good arsenic holding assorted media companies accountable and saying they besides request to bash much successful future."

A spokesperson for Love Island says ITV is "committed to improving the accessibility of our shows connected a continuous ground and we're ever moving connected caller ideas".

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