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| 08 June 2012 |
Accessible movie goers asked for feedback In a bid to gain feedback from movie goers, Media Access Australia has today launched an online questionnaire which will provide industry with... |
| 08 June 2012 |
Closed Captions now available in Google+ Google has announced closed captions are now available on the Google+ video player, following suit with YouTube, the online video streaming and... |
| 07 June 2012 |
CAP THAT! education campaign kicks off for 2012 Our annual CAP THAT! campaign promoting the use of captions in the classroom for every student is back for 2012, providing free tools and information... |
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| 30 May 2012 |
SKY NZ to provide more captions New Zealand subscription TV provider SKY has extended captioning to a further four channels – History, BBC Knowledge, MTV and TVNZ Heartland. This... |
| 18 May 2012 |
Cinemas across Australia add captions and audio description Accessible cinema in Australia has received a boost to the number of sessions available to people with hearing or vision impairments with both the... |
| 16 May 2012 |
Outcry as Irish TV reduces captioning TV Access, a coalition of organisations in the disability and ageing sector, has strongly condemned new Access Rules released by the Broadcasting... |
| 08 May 2012 |
More captioning on pay TV An agreement reached between the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)... |
| 03 May 2012 |
Closed caption movies not an option on Google Play Google’s new multimedia content platform, Google Play, has failed to include closed caption facilities on its movie rental service, which was... |
| 02 May 2012 |
Government releases draft changes to caption legislation Yesterday the Federal Government released a draft bill to amend the Broadcasting Services Act to include caption quotas and caption quality... |
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| 30 April 2012 |
Sony’s caption glasses reach first US cinema Sony has officially launched its much anticipated cinema access technology which displays captions on a pair of glasses, replicating the look of open... |
| 20 April 2012 |
Joy of theatre brought to Deaf kids A new program will see targeted children’s performances captioned so that more kids who are Deaf or hearing impaired can develop a love of theatre. |
| 11 April 2012 |
New app increases access to theatre for the hearing impaired A new service from Adelaide-based The Captioning Studio allows patrons to access theatre captions on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch in selected... |
| 10 April 2012 |
Illinois cinema chain ordered to become accessible One of the USA’s largest cinema companies, AMC Theaters, has reached a settlement with the Attorney General of Illinois which will see closed... |
| 04 April 2012 |
Accessible cinema comes to Bendigo Village Cinemas Bendigo will this week commence audio described and closed captioned movies at its 7-screen complex. This will see access to movies... |
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| 23 March 2012 |
A new way to talk to Grandma Closed Capp is an Android app that aims to enable better communication with someone who is Deaf or hearing impaired. A person dictates a message and... |
| 07 March 2012 |
New live television captioning system developed in UK A UK access company, Red Bee Media, has developed a new live captioning system, Subito, which uses speech recognition technology to align pre-... |
| 01 March 2012 |
Google: our video accessibility team has been hard at work Google has just announced a number of enhancements to closed captioning across its video service, YouTube. Given YouTube’s presence and influence... |
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| 29 February 2012 |
New Zealanders demand closed captioning for Deaf MP Over 5,000 New Zealanders have signed a petition calling for closed captioning to be provided for the country’s first Deaf MP, Mojo Mathers, during... |
| 16 February 2012 |
Proposed new Irish access rules provoke fierce criticism Controversy has erupted in Ireland over proposed changes to television access regulation. In December 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (... |
| 10 February 2012 |
CNN sued for not captioning its online videos A judge in California has refused to dismiss a suit by the Greater Los Angeles Agency for Deafness (GLAD) against CNN for not captioning news clips... |