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Major conference discusses audio description trial on TV

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The 30th anniversary Round Table Conference on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities, which will be held in May, will include a session on access to digital TV through audio description.

The annual conference will feature a range of experts, including Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley. The panel discussion will look at the upcoming audio description trial proposed for the ABC in the second half of 2011, as well as the trial that is now running in New Zealand. Entitled ‘Access to Digital TV, Audio Description and beyond’, the discussion will be on Sunday 22 May at the Bayview on the Park hotel in Melbourne.

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US industry group makes standard available for online captioning

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The Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has released to the public a standard which will make it easier for captions on TV programs to be retained when these programs are shown on the Internet.

The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) has applauded SMPTE’s decision, calling it “important and well-timed”. One of the requirements of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in October 2010, is that programs which were captioned when screened on TV must also be captioned when made available online.

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ABC renews captioning contract with CSI

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The ABC has signed a new long-term contract with Captioning and Subtitling International (CSI) to provide captioning services across its channels ABC1, ABC2, ABC3 and ABC News 24.

CSI has been providing captioning services to the ABC since 2005, and this year is expected to produce 3,000 hours of offline (pre-prepared) captioning and 7,500 hours of live captioning. CSI’s live captioning is provided by its partner, Caption It Pty Ltd.

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