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| 25 August 2017 |
ACMA launches two new captioning videos The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has created two new videos in order to widen the knowledge of people who are Deaf and... |
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| 21 June 2017 |
ACMA releases review of captioning rules The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has just released the final report into its statutory review of captioning rules. While ACMA... |
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| 25 May 2017 |
Free captioning and description editing tool launched The National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) in the USA has just launched CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool) which was previously only... |
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| 18 August 2016 |
Dances With Words Hearing impairment and Parkour probably aren’t concepts that many people immediately group together, but a new Sydney Opera House production combines... |
| 04 August 2016 |
Ai-Media wins captioning contract for ‘BBC Worldwide ANZ’ Ai-Media has been given a contract renewal to provide broadcast captioning for BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) for a further three... |
| 01 August 2016 |
BBC iPlayer trialling subtitles for live channels in world-first In a welcome development from the UK, the BBC has begun trialling subtitles for live channels on their iPlayer platform. This is a first for any... |
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| 20 July 2016 |
Screenworks host CC and AD workshop to educate filmmakers As part of the accessibility focus of Screenworks, they will be holding a Closed Captioning (CC) and Audio Description (AD) workshop next month, with... |
| 07 July 2016 |
Governments are toughening up on public sector web accessibility State and Federal Governments around the globe are toughening up on public sector web accessibility. The latest case is the Alaskan Juneau School... |
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| 30 June 2016 |
New ‘game-changing’ phone app enhances phone accessibility ‘OpenAccess Captions’ is a brand new application for iPads and iPhones that was developed by Brisbane-based charity Conexu Foundation. It is an app... |
| 28 June 2016 |
Channel 4 seeks viewer feedback about its accessibility services Channel 4 has created a survey to capture as much feedback as possible from people who view their programming with captions (subtitles in the UK),... |
| 24 June 2016 |
Chris Mikul’s captioning legacy Chris Mikul was the Project Manager of Media Access Australia since its inception and has been an active advocate for better captioning, audio... |
| 10 June 2016 |
New Zealand holds an inquiry into captioning New Zealand’s Government Administration Committee has announced an inquiry into captioning, and is seeking submissions from the public. |
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| 27 May 2016 |
ACMA publishes preliminary captioning exemption orders for Telstra Pay TV The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has published preliminary exemption orders for 34 channels provided on Telstra Pay TV for... |
| 25 May 2016 |
More than 2,300 people have signed to legislate closed captioning in NZ On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, 19 May 2016, the New Zealand Captioning Working Group submitted a petition to Mojo Mathers, Green MP, with... |
| 10 May 2016 |
ACCAN calls on networks to use windfall to improve accessibility The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has called on the free-to-air networks to use some of the windfall from a 25% cut in... |
| 04 May 2016 |
BBC publishes research on improving live caption timing The BBC has released details of experiments it has undertaken which prove that it’s practical to reduce the delay in live captions appearing on the... |
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| 15 April 2016 |
U.K. Government fails to act on video-on-demand accessibility The organisation Action on Hearing Loss has expressed disappointment at the U.K. Government’s failure to set targets or introduce legislation for the... |
| 12 April 2016 |
Snapchat adds closed captioning support for Discover videos Social messaging app Snapchat has added closed captioning support for videos shared within its Discover section, allowing major publishers to share... |
| 11 April 2016 |
TV in UK exceeds captioning and audio description quotas Television channels in the UK continue to deliver access at much higher levels than the regulated quotas. All channels are covered by the access... |
| 06 April 2016 |
Australian TV networks swap caption suppliers Some major changes have taken place in Australian television captioning this year, with Ericsson winning the contract to provide captions to the ABC... |