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| 15 June 2012 |
Campaign video calls for action on captions A new international media campaign, Don’t Leave Me Out!, has been launched by The Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) with... |
| 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... |
| 29 May 2012 |
US Government sets assistive app challenge A challenge announced last week by the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) could see a suite of apps developed to... |
| 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)... |
| 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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| 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... |
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| 13 December 2011 |
The Captioning Studio wins Human Rights Award A captioning services provider has won a Human Rights Award for its contribution to the inclusion of people with hearing loss. The Australian Human... |
| 05 December 2011 |
Canada leads on bilingual caption quality The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved a set of mandatory standards for French-language closed captions... |
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| 21 November 2011 |
Five new Hoyts locations to begin accessible cinema programs From Thursday, 1 December Hoyts Cinemas will add a further five locations to its list of complexes across Australia screening movies with closed... |
| 10 November 2011 |
Village Jam Factory announces switch-off date for open captioned movies South Yarra cinema Village Jam Factory has announced that its last open captioned session will be on Monday 14 November. |
| 02 November 2011 |
US cinema chain installs closed caption technology in all its locations Midwest US cinema chain Marcus Theatres has announced its completion of digital cinema installation, including CaptiView to show closed captioned... |
| 01 November 2011 |
Twitter used to police television caption quality The Northern NSW TV station, NBN, has set up a Twitter account which allows viewers to alert the station to captioning problems. This is the first... |
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| 25 October 2011 |
The Captioning Studio announces new theatre project for kids GoTheatrical! Kids is a new project that aims to increase access to children’s theatre performances in Australia through captions. |
| 21 October 2011 |
Milestone in America’s fight for television captioning The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has overturned a major category of “automatic” exemptions from its television captioning regulations. The... |
| 17 October 2011 |
Three new audio described and closed captioned cinema locations It’s out with the old and in with the new at three Event/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema locations with the introduction of closed... |
| 14 October 2011 |
Perth gets a new accessible cinema Event Cinemas has notified Media Access Australia that its Innaloo Megaplex in suburban Perth will commence closed captioned and audio described... |