Exemptions which were previously granted to the broadcasters by the AHRC expire on 31 December 2011. In the new application, the broadcasters advise that they have complied with all the terms of the current exemptions, which include meeting staged increases in captioning levels, consulting with deafness community groups and reporting on the consultations to the AHRC.
The Wellbeing award was given to 1000 Empresas for their Help Talk app, which helps people use a smartphone to communicate by speech. By using text-to-speech technology, Help Talk allows a user to tap on an icon that represents a common phrase and communicate the phrase to another person.
In the ‘platform preview’ of Internet Explorer 10 that is currently available to developers, Microsoft has introduced support for two captioning formats, TTML and WebVTT <track>. This feature adds to the already present support for HTML5 <video> playback which supports both the industry standa4rds H.264 format and the newer WebM format.
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald Film Victoria CEO, Jenni Tosi, said the investment fund will contribute to “any costs the developer incurs as part of their accessibility efforts, which may include technology, testing or accessibility consultants.” Film Victoria provides up to $100,000 or 50 per cent of the project budget for games developed in the state.
