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| 18 April 2013 |
Emergency information accessibility required in US Subscription TV providers and program owners in the USA have been ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make emergency... |
| 17 April 2013 |
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013 Thursday 9 May marks the second annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day dedicated to raising the profile of web accessibility amongst web... |
| 12 April 2013 |
Feature: SIMO – Australia’s indoor mapping project For most people, great ideas are triggered by an event or experience that pushes them to do something. For Sydney industrial designer Euan Ramsey-... |
| 11 April 2013 |
Women with disability disadvantaged in ICT The digital divide experienced by people with disability is wider for women, new research finds. A report released by Women with Disabilities... |
| 10 April 2013 |
Opinion: The scourge of YouTube’s auto-captions Michael Lockrey is Asia-Pacific sales manager for Amara and a renowned advocate for Deaf and hearing impaired media access. Here, he dissects the... |
| 09 April 2013 |
Report on the accessibility of Electronic Program Guides Media Access Australia has released a report on electronic program guides (EPGs) and how television networks and content providers display access... |
| 08 April 2013 |
SBS falls short with DVD access As part of a series of home entertainment accessibility reports outside regular entertainment DVD titles, Media Access Australia has collated... |
| 05 April 2013 |
Easy Chirp seeks funding for update Update 12 June: Easy Chirp's Kickstarter campaign successfully raised over $5000. The platform is going down temporarily from today while the new... |
| 04 April 2013 |
New Zealand to have independent captioning supplier Captioning and audio description services for New Zealand television, which are currently provided by the government-owned national broadcaster TVNZ... |
| 02 April 2013 |
Google Chromebook: an accessible and affordable netbook Google has finally launched its long-awaited netbook in Australia. This is welcome news for anyone who wants access to an affordable and light-weight... |
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| 28 March 2013 |
Television access in the UK: 2012 in review Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released its final report on the provision of access services on television for 2012. As in previous... |
| 26 March 2013 |
US senator introduces legislation for accessible entertainment The impact of access legislation in the USA has had a ripple effect around the world. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act,... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Results of UK caption quality survey released A survey on the quality of television captioning, conducted by Action on Hearing Loss, the largest deafness advocacy organisation in the UK, has... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Rear Window Captioning drops license fee One of the most established cinema closed caption systems, Rear Window Captioning (RWC), is going to be more cost effective for cinemas to install.... |
| 20 March 2013 |
Overcoming audio description’s technical hurdles Following the 2012 trial on ABC1, Media Access Australia has compiled a briefing paper outlining how Australia’s television industry can overcome the... |
| 18 March 2013 |
The history of cinema captioning, as told by a pioneer American captioning advocate and blogger Shanna Groves has posted the second interview in her series on movie accessibility for people who are Deaf... |
| 18 March 2013 |
Samsung Galaxy S4 accessibility Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, was launched on Friday with Samsung claiming the device would “bury” its biggest rival, the iPhone 5.... |
| 14 March 2013 |
Voice Search added to Google TV A new feature added to Google TV called Voice Search could improve how blind, vision impaired or mobility impaired people interact with the device.... |
| 13 March 2013 |
Captions in the classroom: a hidden literacy tool Education manager and Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf, Anne McGrath, talks through key pieces of research which identify the link between captions and... |
| 12 March 2013 |
Global progress on social media accessibility Today marks the one-year anniversary of the release of our sociABILITY: social media for people with a disability resources. The project was the... |