Miers said, “I’m honoured to accept this position, and I will be proud to build on past Deaf Australia successes to keep the deaf community a strong one and advance the rights of deaf people Australia-wide.”
Miers has long been an advocate for captioning. He was involved with the negotiations which saw Free TV, and later subscription TV, introducing staged caption quotas, the precursor to quotas being legislated as part of amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act which were passed in 2012. He was also a consumer representative on the consultative group put together by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) as it formulated its caption quality standard, and a member of the Australian Cinema Advisory Group.
“I am pleased that Deaf Australia has chosen an experienced caption advocate as its new CEO,” said Alex Varley, CEO of Media Access Australia. “Kyle has been involved in many actions across the last ten years around captions for TV, DVD, cinema and strong involvement in caption quality deliberations.”
For more information, see Deaf Australia’s media release.
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