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June 2011
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24 June 2011 Italian project provides cinema captioning via Samsung smartphones and tablets
‘Leggi il film’, ‘read the film’ in Italian, is a joint project by Italian hearing impaired association FIADDA and Universal Multimedia Access to...
22 June 2011 DeafTechNews releases instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish
US technology review group DeafTechNews has created two short instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish.
17 June 2011 Tickets to audio described theatre session in Perth available until 12 July
Ticket sales for the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s audio described performance of Rising Water will close on 12 July.
10 June 2011 Accessible Cinema Advisory Group releases second communiqué
The Accessible Cinema Advisory Group (ACAG) met in late May to discuss the continued rollout of accessible cinema locations across the four major...
10 June 2011 ABC’s 7.30 program highlights Screen Australia’s audio description policy
Screen Australia’s announcement yesterday of its new audio description policy for feature films was highlighted on last night’s 7.30 on the ABC.
09 June 2011 Screen Australia announces new audio description policy
Screen Australia, the Federal Government’s funding body for the screen production industry, has announced a new funding condition that requires films...
09 June 2011 New Broadway theatre accessibility initiative
A new partnership between Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts and arts access provider G-PASS means visitors to New York will have the opportunity to...
May 2011
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31 May 2011 Media Access Review progress page launched
Today Media Access Australia launched a new webpage in our Research and Policy section detailing the progress which has so far been made on the Media...
30 May 2011 Report on captioning in the European Union released
The European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH) has released a report which looks at levels of captioning on audiovisual media across the...
24 May 2011 World-leading arts access conference in USA in August
The annual Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) conference will be held this year in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
20 May 2011 Australian festival director takes cinema access across the globe
Film and festival director Rick Randall, Artistic Director of The Other Film Festival, has travelled to Israel where he will participate as keynote...
17 May 2011 RNIB international audio description study findings released
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has released the results of a study which looked at whether audio description produced in other...
16 May 2011 Audio described contemporary art tour at Art Gallery of NSW
The Art Gallery of NSW is holding an audio described tour of the new John Kaldor Family Gallery on Sunday, 22 May at 1:30pm.
13 May 2011 Dr Zhivago to be audio described in Melbourne
New Australian musical Dr Zhivago will be audio described for one show only at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne.
10 May 2011 American cinema chain to provide captioning and audio description in theatres nationwide
Leading motion picture exhibitor Regal Entertainment Group, which owns and operates the largest theatre circuit in the United States, has announced...
05 May 2011 New service improves accessibility of museum tours for the deaf
A new service from the Australian Communication Exchange will improve the accessibility of museum tours for the Deaf and hearing impaired.
April 2011
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29 April 2011 The Third Annual Young Described Film Critic Contest
The American Council of the Blind and the Described and Captioned Media Program have announced their third annual contest for young people to write...
27 April 2011 US cinema chain to provide CaptiView captions
America’s third largest cinema chain, Cinemark, will install CaptiView closed caption equipment for Deaf and hearing impaired patrons in all its...
21 April 2011 Enjoy this long weekend with an accessible movie
Go to the movies this Easter long weekend for some accessible entertainment. There are many films available with both captions and audio description...
19 April 2011 Customise your news alerts now
There are many ways you can choose to receive news from Media Access Australia, and with a few easy steps you can customise your subscription by...

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