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| 13 December 2016 |
Riverside Theatres present accessible movies Riverside Theatres in Parramatta are staging a large number of accessible screenings of a variety of popular films including the latest releases,... |
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| 22 July 2016 |
Progress with accessibility needed in New Zealand 121 students took over New Zealand’s Parliament to debate about ‘Accessible Web Pages and Apps’. This was a mock bill aiming to improve accessibility... |
| 20 July 2016 |
Screenworks host CC and AD workshop to educate filmmakers As part of the accessibility focus of Screenworks, they will be holding a Closed Captioning (CC) and Audio Description (AD) workshop next month, with... |
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| 06 April 2016 |
Egypt gets a taste of Hotel Transylvania 2 with live AD In a first for Egypt and the Middle East, the popular new children’s fantasy-comedy movie Hotel Transylvania 2 was screened in Cairo with live Audio... |
| 01 April 2016 |
UK Cinemas support World Autism Awareness Day More than 900 UK cinemas are taking part in special screenings to help recognise World Autism Awareness Day on Saturday 2 April. |
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| 23 February 2016 |
Blind Americans frustrated over cinema customer service failure Most cinemas in America (and Australia) provide audio description technology and screen audio described movies for blind and vision impaired people,... |
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| 29 January 2016 |
Pixar’s new app bypasses cinema audio description issues Movie producer and distributor Pixar Studios has moved to solve the problem of blind people not being able to access its movies by creating an audio... |
| 18 January 2016 |
Accessible cinema technologies introduced on the Gold Coast The Arts Centre Gold Coast has introduced a new line of personal captioning and audio description devices intended to enhance cinema access for... |
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| 23 December 2015 |
The most popular accessibility stories of 2015 As the year comes to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most popular articles and events regarding consumer accessibility across the web,... |
| 17 December 2015 |
Choosing accessible movie sessions With so many big movies being released for the Christmas season, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Arthur Christmas, it’s... |
| 10 December 2015 |
Sydney Festival expands accessibility The innovative program of events to be staged at the upcoming Sydney Festival is set to be more accessible and inclusive than in past years. The... |
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| 27 November 2015 |
Accessible film festival hosts free gala screening in Sydney Access All Areas Film Festival (AAAFF) will be celebrating the International Day of People with Disability on 3 December with a free screening of... |
| 25 November 2015 |
Blind activist launches petition for accessible inflight entertainment Philip Chalker has launched a petition on Change.org, asking that Virgin Australia provide audio description for people who are blind or vision... |
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| 29 September 2015 |
iTunes Australia offering audio described movies There has been a quiet, small development in the availability of audio described movies from Apple iTunes in Australia. |
| 23 September 2015 |
Japan ramps up cinema access New laws in Japan designed to remove discrimination against people with disabilities will take effect from April 2016. One area that will benefit is... |
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| 07 August 2015 |
Irish cinemas show accessible movies Ireland’s largest cinema chain, the family-owned Omniplex, which owns 22 cinemas across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, will start... |
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| 24 June 2015 |
Egypt audio describes its first feature film On 11 June 2015, the 1963 epic drama Al Nasser Saladin became the first Egyptian feature film to be screened with audio description for blind and... |
| 17 June 2015 |
Accessible trailers help you decide Many movies are available with captions and/or audio description at cinemas, on DVD and some video-on-demand (VOD) services. But how do you decide... |
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| 07 May 2015 |
Hawaii makes cinema access compulsory The US state of Hawaii has brought in state legislation to mandate the provision of captions and audio description (described as “descriptive... |
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| 21 April 2015 |
Swedish app massively expands audio described cinema A new mobile app provided through Sweden’s Available Cinema project will increase the number of audio described cinema sessions from 150 to 150,000... |