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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 10 November 2011 |
Village Jam Factory announces switch-off date for open captioned movies South Yarra cinema Village Jam Factory has announced that its last open captioned session will be on Monday 14 November. |
| 08 November 2011 |
Sydney Festival provides captioned and audio described performances Sydney siders will have the chance to see open captioned and audio described performances as part of the annual Sydney Festival, held from 7-29... |
| 07 November 2011 |
Sydney’s iconic Belvoir St Theatre announces 2012 accessible performances One of Australia’s most enduring theatre companies, Belvoir, has announced audio described and captioned performances for 2012. |
| 07 November 2011 |
Access All Areas Film Festival launches 2011 program The annual Access All Areas Film Festival commences its accessible movie screenings this month with three tour programs designed to attract a range... |
| 04 November 2011 |
Government health information made more accessible The Senior Executive of The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Alison Verhoeven, has spoken at the recent Govt. 2.0 Conference at the... |
| 03 November 2011 |
Australian cinema loses an accessible cinema pioneer The staff at Media Access Australia were saddened to learn today of the death of Mark Sarfaty, the CEO of the Independent Cinemas Association of... |
| 02 November 2011 |
US cinema chain installs closed caption technology in all its locations Midwest US cinema chain Marcus Theatres has announced its completion of digital cinema installation, including CaptiView to show closed captioned... |
| 01 November 2011 |
Twitter used to police television caption quality The Northern NSW TV station, NBN, has set up a Twitter account which allows viewers to alert the station to captioning problems. This is the first... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
|---|---|
| 28 October 2011 |
NZ's most loved drama made accessible for blind and vision impaired fans The most watched drama on New Zealand television will be audio described from next week. The announcement shows just how far ahead our neighbours are... |
| 26 October 2011 |
Access to Adelaide library increased for people who are blind and vision impaired Onkaparinga City Council has been successful in their bid for 15 DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital playback devices under the... |
| 25 October 2011 |
The Captioning Studio announces new theatre project for kids GoTheatrical! Kids is a new project that aims to increase access to children’s theatre performances in Australia through captions. |
| 21 October 2011 |
Milestone in America’s fight for television captioning The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has overturned a major category of “automatic” exemptions from its television captioning regulations. The... |
| 19 October 2011 |
Access conference calls for papers The Roundtable on Print Disability, hosted by the Western Australian Association for the Blind, is calling for papers for its April 2012 conference... |
| 17 October 2011 |
First chapter of guide to creating accessible digital media released Our counterparts, Media Access Canada, are releasing a guide to creating accessible digital media. The project, of which Media Access Australia is a... |
| 17 October 2011 |
Three new audio described and closed captioned cinema locations It’s out with the old and in with the new at three Event/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema locations with the introduction of closed... |
| 14 October 2011 |
New service provides live captions for ABC News24 online tveeder.com is a new service which provides live captions on ABC News24 online. Powered through the tumblr.com blogging platform, tveeder.com... |
| 14 October 2011 |
Perth gets a new accessible cinema Event Cinemas has notified Media Access Australia that its Innaloo Megaplex in suburban Perth will commence closed captioned and audio described... |
| 13 October 2011 |
Report from America on a world leading education initiative The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) is a US initiative run by the Department of Education and the National Association of the Deaf. Its... |
| 11 October 2011 |
TV station found in breach of license due to caption failure The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that Nine Network affiliate NBN failed to show the TV Week Logie Awards with... |
| 07 October 2011 |
Latest accessible DVD releases – September 2011 Access to new release DVD titles during the month of September 2011 stands at 30% for audio description and 64% for captioning. A total of 87 titles... |