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| 20 May 2013 |
UK regulator seeks to improve live TV captioning The UK communications regulator Ofcom has announced proposals aimed at improving the quality of live captioning on television, including asking... |
| 17 May 2013 |
Captioned cinema moves forward with new technologies Two new accessible cinema developments in the USA and UK have movie fans getting excited about what might be the next steps in captioned movies. Both... |
| 10 May 2013 |
Ai-Media appoints new caption quality auditor The access provider Ai-Media has appointed Robert Scott as an independent auditor to ensure the quality of the captions it produces for broadcast,... |
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| 30 April 2013 |
Deaf advocate takes discrimination claim to the United Nations Michael Lockrey, a prominent figure in Australian disability advocacy, has petitioned the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with... |
| 19 April 2013 |
Accessible DVDs released in March 2013 At least 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months have been made accessible with closed captions and audio description. Of the 60 titles we... |
| 17 April 2013 |
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013 Thursday 9 May marks the second annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day dedicated to raising the profile of web accessibility amongst web... |
| 11 April 2013 |
Women with disability disadvantaged in ICT The digital divide experienced by people with disability is wider for women, new research finds. A report released by Women with Disabilities... |
| 10 April 2013 |
Opinion: The scourge of YouTube’s auto-captions Michael Lockrey is Asia-Pacific sales manager for Amara and a renowned advocate for Deaf and hearing impaired media access. Here, he dissects the... |
| 09 April 2013 |
Report on the accessibility of Electronic Program Guides Media Access Australia has released a report on electronic program guides (EPGs) and how television networks and content providers display access... |
| 08 April 2013 |
SBS falls short with DVD access As part of a series of home entertainment accessibility reports outside regular entertainment DVD titles, Media Access Australia has collated... |
| 04 April 2013 |
New Zealand to have independent captioning supplier Captioning and audio description services for New Zealand television, which are currently provided by the government-owned national broadcaster TVNZ... |
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| 28 March 2013 |
Television access in the UK: 2012 in review Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released its final report on the provision of access services on television for 2012. As in previous... |
| 26 March 2013 |
US senator introduces legislation for accessible entertainment The impact of access legislation in the USA has had a ripple effect around the world. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act,... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Results of UK caption quality survey released A survey on the quality of television captioning, conducted by Action on Hearing Loss, the largest deafness advocacy organisation in the UK, has... |
| 18 March 2013 |
The history of cinema captioning, as told by a pioneer American captioning advocate and blogger Shanna Groves has posted the second interview in her series on movie accessibility for people who are Deaf... |
| 13 March 2013 |
Captions in the classroom: a hidden literacy tool Education manager and Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf, Anne McGrath, talks through key pieces of research which identify the link between captions and... |
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| 28 February 2013 |
Human Rights Commission releases Australia’s first fully-accessible DVD Twenty Years: Twenty Stories is a video project initiated by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) which celebrates the twentieth anniversary... |
| 27 February 2013 |
If we had Glass: the access potential for Google Glass Google released a promotional website for its Project Glass last week, a device worn as glasses which integrates smartphone technology. Among much... |
| 19 February 2013 |
Campaign for captions in Malta A campaign is under way in Malta to have captions introduced on television and in cinemas. Run by the Deaf People Association and film promotion... |
| 18 February 2013 |
MasterChef highlights online access gap One of the contestants on Network Ten’s MasterChef: The Professionals, Bonny Porter, has a hearing impairment, but like other Deaf and hearing... |