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October 2010
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11 October 2010 Access All Areas film festival hits the road again
Access All Areas is a touring film festival that aims to increase access to Australian cinema. For the third year running the festival will screen...
08 October 2010 President Obama to sign landmark access legislation today
President Barack Obama will today sign into law the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.
08 October 2010 President Obama signs landmark access legislation
President Barack Obama  signed into law the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.
08 October 2010 Captioned theatre in Adelaide, 15 October
The award-winning production of When the Rain Stops Falling returns to Adelaide for a short season this month.  Included in the season is a...
07 October 2010 Dr Scott Hollier introduces the importance of WAI-ARIA
Dr Scott Hollier continues to keep us up to date with the W3C as he introduces the WAI-ARIA.
07 October 2010 The Media Access Report - Spring 2010
The Media Access Report for Spring 2010 is now available to download in Rich Text Format.
06 October 2010 Crowd sourcing for increased web accessibility
Fix the Web began its first trial at the end of September and provides a simple way for web users with disabilities to report access issues they...
06 October 2010 Ai-Media interviews MAA
Ai-Media spent some time recently chatting with Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley and Education Manager Anne McGrath.
06 October 2010 Award-winning documentary to be audio described on Internet radio
Monica and David, a documentary about the marriage of two people with Down syndrome, will be broadcast on the US cable network HBO on 14 October,...
05 October 2010 Social media spreads word about accessibility in Firefox 4
A blog post written by Mozilla’s Accessibility Quality Assurance Engineer, Marco Zehe, is being enthusiastically passed around by accessibility...
September 2010
Date Published News headline and description
29 September 2010 US House of Representatives passes landmark media access bill
The US House of Representatives today passed S. 3304, the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act and its technical...
29 September 2010 MAA publishes AD background paper
Media Access Australia has published a new background paper on audio description (AD). It describes the history of AD, production techniques, the...
28 September 2010 Watch captioned movie trailers on your iPhone
Movie search engine Captionfish has just released an iPhone application (app) that streams captioned movie trailers for the Deaf and hearing impaired...
28 September 2010 Growing social media presence for Media Access Australia
In line with the move to expand its work in access, Media Access Australia embraces online social media, with a particular focus on Facebook, Twitter...
24 September 2010 Latest figures on audio described DVDs - September 2010
Audio described DVD titles on new release shelves during the month of September 2010 stand at 33% of all titles.
23 September 2010 Sculpture by the Sea expands its access program
Accessible Arts, the peak arts and disability organisation in NSW, has once again partnered with Sculpture by the Sea to provide a series of...
23 September 2010 Teclast e-reader - a cheap Kindle alternative with access features
The Teclast TL-K5 e-reader and media device can be found on eBay for AU$189 and features several accessibility features such as zoom and text-to-...
22 September 2010 AI Live and NVDA finalists on The New Inventors
Ai-Live and NVDA are in the running for major awards on The New Inventors, including the invention of the year and the “Les is More Awards”.
21 September 2010 Hindi and English audio described DVD
Back in February 2010, Media Access Australia reported on the world’s first Bollywood movie to screen with Hindi audio description (AD). That movie...
20 September 2010 Australian Human Rights Commission rejects subscription TV caption exemption application
The Australian Human Rights Commission (the AHRC) has refused an application for exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992...

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