Deaf or hearing impaired
Human Rights Commission requests further information on subscription TV captioning
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ASTRA has been asked to:
· Provide details of ASTRA members’ profit, and the amount spent on captioning, for the year 2009-2010, to support its contention that ‘an obligation to caption all programming on all channels would be financially prohibitive’.
· Comment on the proposal in several submissions that the ASTRA members spend 1% of annual turnover on captioning.
· Provide information about how the percentages of captioning proposed for each channel under an exemption agreement were determined.
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YouTube adds feature to view caption transcripts
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YouTube has supported closed captions for nearly two years now, and during that time has introduced additional features to support captioning such as CaptionTube, a web-based captioning editor and their automated captioning service in March this year.
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Jetstar to rent out iPads for inflight entertainment
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The iPad, which has a number of accessible features including the VoiceOver screen reader and captioned video, means that people who are blind or vision impaired could have the e-books read out to them during the flight, and people who are hearing impaired could potentially have closed captions available on the movies and TV shows. However, Jetstar is yet to confirm if the video will be captioned.
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