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| 16 December 2014 |
Senate caption inquiry posts submissions Submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications which is reviewing proposed changes to captioning regulations have now... |
| 16 December 2014 |
Skype Translator moves closer to general availability Microsoft has announced that its Skype Translator tool—which provides real time translations of different spoken languages to text captions—has moved... |
| 15 December 2014 |
Cinema and the arts highlights of 2014 2014 had a number of highlights in the areas of cinema and the arts. Where cinema developments over the last few years could be considered full steam... |
| 10 December 2014 |
Deadline for submissions to caption review arrives Today is the deadline for submissions to the Senate Communications and Environment Committee which is reviewing proposed changes to captioning... |
| 08 December 2014 |
Next steps for web accessibility in Australia announced The inclusion of accessibility in a digital design guide and a second NTS progress survey are just two of the next steps in Australian government web... |
| 08 December 2014 |
Accessible festivals during Australia’s summer Along with an Australian summer comes a raft of festivals nationwide. Three of the biggest festivals are the Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival and... |
| 03 December 2014 |
Social media, cloud show signs of improved access The accessibility of social media and the cloud are beginning to mature, but access issues remain for people with disabilities, Media Access... |
| 02 December 2014 |
Q&A: Australia’s Media Accessibility in a Multicultural, Multilingual Context—Australia as a Case Study Media Access Australia spoke to Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western... |
| 01 December 2014 |
Captions supporting students with autism Captions are acknowledged as being beneficial for a range of students with diverse learning needs, including Deaf and hearing impaired, English as a... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 28 November 2014 |
Five live-caption quality issues from the UK The quality of live captioning was a major topic discussed at the recent The Future of Subtitling conference held in London on 10 November 2014.... |
| 27 November 2014 |
US cinemas and advocacy groups agree on accessible cinema recommendations US cinema owners and advocacy groups have come to a historic agreement in order to make accessible cinema recommendations to government around the... |
| 26 November 2014 |
Ofcom releases first access report for 2014 The UK communications regulator Ofcom has released its Television Access Report for the first half of 2014, which shows that once again, most British... |
| 26 November 2014 |
Curtain call for Stagetext CEO Tabitha Allum For the last decade, UK arts captioning organisation Stagetext has been led by the dedicated and talented Tabitha Allum. Tabitha steps down from her... |
| 25 November 2014 |
Online retail web accessibility guide Now that a legal case has been brought against Coles for a lack of web accessibility of its online shopping site, and that a similar case in the US... |
| 24 November 2014 |
Q&A Gilbert + Tobin’s Darren Fittler Media Access Australia spoke with Gilbert + Tobin’s Darren Fittler about his nomination for the 2014 Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human... |
| 24 November 2014 |
2014 Access All Areas film festival starts soon The annual Access All Areas Film Festival brings accessible screenings of the best new Australian films to venues near you. The festival travels to... |
| 21 November 2014 |
Access 2020 predicting the future – five experts, 20 ideas A highlight of the recent the Languages and the Media Conference in Berlin was a panel presentation speculating about what access might look like in... |
| 20 November 2014 |
Senate committee seeks submissions about caption changes The Senate committee which is looking at the Government’s recently proposed changes to caption regulations is seeking submissions by interested... |
| 20 November 2014 |
Hong Kong art for everyone, By ALL Means Media Access Australia recently met with staff from Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong (ADAHK) during their visit to Australia for the Arts... |
| 19 November 2014 |
UK VOD industry has two years to deliver captions or face regulation The video on demand (VOD) industry in the United Kingdom has two years to prove that it can deliver reasonable access for deaf people or it will face... |