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| 22 July 2014 |
The National Library: a ‘treasure trove’ of captioned resources The National Library of Australia (NLA), located in Canberra, is home to extensive collections across a range of disciplines including Australian... |
| 16 July 2014 |
Teachers on the power of captions in the classroom Media Access Australia recently spoke to teachers participating in this year’s CAP THAT! campaign about the power of captions to transform education... |
| 08 July 2014 |
Canada makes captioning of commercials and promos mandatory The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has made it a licence condition for all television commercials, sponsorship... |
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| 26 June 2014 |
Challenges of captioning and copyrights Media Access Australia spoke to Blake E. Reid, Assistant Clinical Professor at Colorado Law, following his chairing of a session at the M-Enabling... |
| 24 June 2014 |
Hoyts Kiosk improve accessibility Entertainment giant Hoyts has increased its number of DVD rental kiosks nationally, as well as improve the access information about the titles each... |
| 16 June 2014 |
ACMA finds Prime and GTV9 breached caption regulations The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that Prime Television failed to meet its captioning obligations by broadcasting a... |
| 12 June 2014 |
US regulator dismisses captioning exemption petitions The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has dismissed petitions from 16 television programs requesting exemptions from closed captioning... |
| 11 June 2014 |
ACMA releases subscription TV captioning compliance reports The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today released captioning compliance reports for subscription television services for the... |
| 11 June 2014 |
Winners of US Awards for Advancement in Accessibility announced America’s communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced the winners of the 2014 FCC Chairman Awards for... |
| 11 June 2014 |
Captioned World Cup Local coverage of the world’s largest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup starting in Brazil on 12 June (13 June Australian time),... |
| 05 June 2014 |
Nominations are open for annual captioning awards Innovations and great access through captioning are celebrated and rewarded at the annual Deafness Forum Captioning Awards. There are six categories... |
| 05 June 2014 |
YouTube’s new DIY captioning tool YouTube has introduced a new feature which makes it easier to create closed captions and add them to your videos. |
| 04 June 2014 |
CAP THAT! promotes literacy through captions The annual CAP THAT! education campaign, a Media Access Australia initiative, launches today for another round promoting captions on video as a... |
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| 30 May 2014 |
Irish regulator suggests modest audio description targets The Irish broadcasting regulator, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, has commenced a consultation period looking at possible changes to the... |
| 29 May 2014 |
Skype Translator offers real time voice translation Microsoft has demonstrated a new application, Skype Translator, which provides near real-time voice and caption translation of different languages. |
| 28 May 2014 |
Improving the quality of live captioning The recent initiative by the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, to measure the quality of live captioning has been welcomed by David Padmore,... |
| 16 May 2014 |
Nine’s captioners audited for quality Ai-Media, the caption supplier for the Nine Network, has released the results of its first external caption quality audit, scoring more than 99%... |
| 09 May 2014 |
The digital accessible cinema chain: Part 1 – The overall picture and stakeholders In this three-part series, Media Access Australia project manager Ally Woodford looks at the stakeholders and roles they play in making movies... |
| 06 May 2014 |
UK theatre captioners receive research funding UK charity Nesta has just announced its latest round of funding recipients under its Digital Research and Development Fund for the Arts. One of the... |
| 02 May 2014 |
Naughty behaviour from Canadian porn channel The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has warned Channel Zero, a Toronto-based company that provides three... |