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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 27 July 2012 |
Meet Georgie, the app enhancing Android phones for blind users A vision impaired couple from the UK have come up with an app that improves the way blind or vision impaired people use phones. The app for Android... |
| 26 July 2012 |
Google Maps make Sydney public transport directions accessible Google and Transport New South Wales have teamed up to introduce Sydney public transport directions to the Google Maps app. After testing, we can... |
| 25 July 2012 |
Any Questions for Ben DVD released without access features Roadshow Entertainment, Australia’s most consistent distributor of accessible DVD and Blu-ray, has informed Media Access Australia of an error with... |
| 25 July 2012 |
E-inclusion kit helps seniors with disabilities get online A new resource kit that will help seniors with disabilities get online has been launched in a collaborative project between Media Access Australia... |
| 23 July 2012 |
Death of Media Access Australia’s chairman, Graham Jones It’s with great sadness that we announce the death of Media Access Australia’s Chairman, Graham Jones, after a short illness. |
| 23 July 2012 |
Nine beats FOXTEL in captioned Olympic coverage The Nine network has confirmed that all of its coverage of the London Olympics, consisting of over 300 hours broadcast on Channel 9 and simulcast in... |
| 20 July 2012 |
Audio description trial dates announced The long-awaited trial of audio description on Australian television will commence on 5 August on ABC1, and run for 13 weeks between 5pm and midnight... |
| 19 July 2012 |
Introducing Access iQ: helping create a web without limits Access iQ is Media Access Australia's new initiative. Launched today, the website is a hub for anyone who wants to learn how to make websites and... |
| 17 July 2012 |
New US access standards for remotes and 3D TVs The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has just released five new standards for electronics equipment manufacturers, including one related to... |
| 17 July 2012 |
Australians with disabilities pay too much for IT The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has published a report outlining how Australians pay too much for technology and that... |
| 16 July 2012 |
Woolworths refuses to caption its ads Following an investigation by B&T magazine which found that many major Australian brands are not captioning their TV commercials, Coles has... |
| 13 July 2012 |
New invention bridges the signing gap A pair of gloves have been invented which translate sign language into synthetic speech. The project saw its developers, a team of students from... |
| 10 July 2012 |
Report on the accessible cinema rollout: January to June 2012 Following on from the successful 2011 rollout of captioned and audio described cinema locations under the Cinema Access Implementation Plan, the... |
| 09 July 2012 |
See "Ice Age 4" with open audio description A special screening of the movie Ice Age 4: Continental Drift with audio description played openly in the cinema for all patrons has been organised... |
| 06 July 2012 |
Captions added to Google+ Hangouts Google’s flagship social network, Google+, has made a breakthrough with the launch of Hangout Captions. The app will allow people who are Deaf or... |
| 05 July 2012 |
Accessibility you can bank on A bank in Switzerland, Credit Suisse, is calling itself “the barrier-free bank” as it launches its accessibility initiative for the fifth year... |
| 04 July 2012 |
Audio description now mandatory on US television As of 1 July, audio description is once again mandatory on television in the US, with the top four networks and top five cable TV channels obliged to... |
| 04 July 2012 |
The Other Film Festival returns for 2012 The biennial Other Film Festival has announced its return in 2012, showing films that are not only accessible, but tell stories of people with... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 28 June 2012 |
Captions included on ABC iView app The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has today launched the ABC iView app for iPhone, with caption functionality included. |
| 28 June 2012 |
Overstream website for captioning videos experiencing problems Free online captioning software Overstream is currently experiencing problems with its video streaming functions. Videos can be searched for but not... |