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First chapter of guide to creating accessible digital media released

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Our counterparts, Media Access Canada, are releasing a guide to creating accessible digital media. The project, of which Media Access Australia is a partner, offers advice on how media should be made accessible as technology rapidly evolves. The first chapter has been released, advising the best methods to place description within videos and movies. Provision of audio description increases access to video content for blind and vision impaired people.

Media Access Canada (MAC) said that the lack of a similar guide in the past has led to a lack of consistency in description quality. The first chapter of Accessible Content Best Practices Guide for Digital Environments focuses on the audio description (called video description in North America) process and provides examples of best practice. The chapter offers a useful benchmark for audio description quality.

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New iPhone release: a summary of accessibility improvements

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Apple CEO Tim Cook announced iPhone 4S today – but what impact does the announcement have on accessibility for people with disabilities?

The new iPhone 4S is essentially a hardware upgrade. It is more powerful and includes a better camera for increased image and video quality. Most of the accessibility features for iPhone come from the mobile operating system iOS rather than the device itself. However, there were a number of announcements today that impact on the accessibility world.

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Siri adds another dimension to iPhone accessibility

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Apple has released a new version of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, with enhanced accessibility features. Perhaps the most important is a new voice recognition program, allowing users to perform a wide variety of tasks hands and eyes free.

Marketed as a personal assistant in your phone, Siri responds to vocal commands such as questions with information. For instance, the question “what’s the weather like in San Francisco today?” will trigger the phone to respond audibly with weather information. The Apple website states that “It does what you say and finds the information you need. And then it hits you. You’re actually having a conversation with your iPhone.”

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W3C announces new online training course in HTML5 audio and video

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The World Wide Web Consortium has just launched a new training course in HTML5 for web developers and designers.

Students will learn how HTML5 can be best applied to audio and video content within webpages, apps and media, with a particular emphasis on mobile devices. The course is open to web designers and developers with a sound working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

 The five-week course will run from 17 October – 20 November 2011. Early bird rates (€145) are open until 7 October 2011. The full price of the course is €225.

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