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Reading Rockets encourages captions for diverse learners

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Reading Rockets is a United States government funded program that is part of a public community television station. Its mission is to help parents, teachers, principals and librarians keep up to date with developments in reading and digital literacy. The recently posted article, Captioned Media: Literacy Support for Diverse Learners (from the National Center for Technology Innovation) shows that the use of captions benefits a range of diverse learners.

MAA strongly encourages the provision of captions on DVD and online content as this provides equity in the education process for students who are Deaf or hearing impaired. The article examines how a surge of recent studies have suggested that captioned titles also benefit a wide variety of learners, from beginning readers, struggling readers and those from an English as a Second Language (ESL) background. This should provide further impetus for production companies to take action on access. It is apparent that the current market for captioned material has further potential.

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Korean government actively implements accessibility guidelines

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HiSoftware Inc., a provider of web content and social media compliance solutions, and Korean distributor Trust Line Information and Communications Co., Ltd. have announced that HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff has been selected for use by multiple government ministries in Korea.

HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff will be used by the Korean government to manage accessibility compliance in several major government organisations. The product will assist government to meet the new Korean Web Content Accessibility Guideline 1.0 (KCWAG 1.0) recently implemented by the Republic of Korea.

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US panel to review how broadband will work for disabilities

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is convening a panel to ensure that people with disabilities share fully in the benefits of broadband. The panel will look into the role of innovation; the need for legal, policy and regulatory changes; open government process and collaborative problem-solving. Findings and outcomes from the panel will feed into the National Broadband Plan being developed by the FCC.

The panel includes some major experts in media access in America, including Eric Bridges from American Council of the Blind; Rosaline Crawford from the National Association of the Deaf; Director of Media Access from WGBH, Larry Goldberg as well as a host of industry and government experts. The panel is being moderated by Jenifer Simpson (American Assoc of People with Disabilities) and Rob Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation). 

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Google opens auto-captions up to other video providers

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Google have built on their auto-caption feature in YouTube by allowing other video providers to use the technology.

The feature, which uses Google Voice technology to automatically process and generate closed captions, was originally designed for YouTube clips. Due to its successful implementation, Google now allows video providers and general users to apply for machine transcriptions on their own videos. A video requested for transcription is put in a queue on YouTube where the captions are generated. The completed video has the benefit of also being able to translate the captions on-the-fly into other languages.

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