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Nominations for the Captioning Awards close soon

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Nominations for the Deafness Forum’s Captioning Awards close on 29 July. The awards present an opportunity to celebrate the steps media and others have taken towards access over the year. This includes work in advertising, TV, DVD and events. The awards also recognise achievement in the promotion of captioning for social inclusion. 

“The world of captioning can often be a minefield of negotiating, quality control, technological glitches and sometimes unhappy customers for media producers,” said Allayne Woodford, Project Manager at Media Access Australia.

“The Captioning Awards is one night of the year when parties from behind and in front of the screen can come together and celebrate their successes and can encourage producers to continue bringing their work to millions of viewers.”


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Cinemas change from open to closed captions

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A number of major cinema complexes have made the change from open captions to closed captions in recent weeks. This provides more opportunities to see captioned movies, but means captions are reliant on the availability of CaptiView units.

The new closed caption system has just been introduced at Event Cinemas at Parramatta, George Street Sydney and Maroochydore. You can still book movie tickets online for closed captioned movies, but on arrival at the cinema, you will need to visit the box office and collect a CaptiView unit.  


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US access committee reports on Internet video captioning

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The the Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee has released a report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which proposes a timetable for the compulsory closed captioning of all Internet video content originally broadcast with captions on American television.

The committee’s report was one of the requirements of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, which was signed into law by President Obama last October. Now that the FCC has the report, it has six months to set new closed captioning rules.


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Round-up of accessibility in WA

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To celebrate Media Access Australia’s first year in Western Australia, let’s take a look at the state of accessibility in WA and some of the events coming up.

“WA has seen some huge leaps in technology and policy in the past twelve months,” said Dr Scott Hollier from the WA office. “But we’ve also seen the accessible web community begin to thrive.”

WA government commits to web accessibility

One of the biggest WA news stories in accessibility has been the state government’s commitment to implement the W3C Web Contents Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 to either an ‘A’ or ‘AA’ level by the end of 2013.


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Blip.tv provides closed captions

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The US-based Blip.tv, one of the leading platforms for original web series, launched a new media player this week which supports closed captions.

While only a limited number of Blip.tv series have captions at the moment, those that do include some of its most popular shows, such as the science fiction series Red vs. Blue. Captions are uploaded to Blip.tv by the program creators, and activated by viewers via the ‘CC’ button on the media player.

Blip.tv programs can be viewed in Australia.


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