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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 18 July 2011 |
US access committee reports on Internet video captioning The the Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee has released a report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which proposes a... |
| 15 July 2011 |
Round-up of accessibility in WA To celebrate Media Access Australia’s first year in Western Australia, let’s take a look at the state of accessibility in WA and some of the events... |
| 11 July 2011 |
YouTube captions boost SEO Adding captions to a YouTube video can improve your search engine optimisation and increase your audience to include the Deaf and hearing impaired,... |
| 07 July 2011 |
Khan Academy adds Universal Subtitles to online education videos People who are Deaf and hearing impaired may now have access to over 2,400 education videos produced by the Khan Academy, after Universal Subtitles... |
| 01 July 2011 |
US project to improve web access for low-income Deaf and hearing impaired Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD), a US not-for-profit organisation promoting access for Deaf and hearing impaired Americans, has been... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 30 June 2011 |
Blip.tv provides closed captions The US-based Blip.tv, one of the leading platforms for original web series, launched a new media player this week which supports closed captions. |
| 30 June 2011 |
US Theatre Development Fund awarded grant to expand captioning services The Broadway, US-based Theatre Development Fund has been awarded a grant to partner with 11 regional theatres in a national theatre captioning... |
| 27 June 2011 |
Term 2 shows positive move forward for Deaf and hearing impaired students At the end of Term 2, the Media Access Australia Education Team reflects on education access developments for students who are Deaf and hearing... |
| 24 June 2011 |
YouTube’s auto-captions improve, but there’s a long way to go Scientific American has published an article on the state of YouTube’s auto caption service, introduced in 2009, which uses speech recognition... |
| 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. |
| 20 June 2011 |
Leading online video provider Netflix sued for not captioning videos The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is suing Netflix, the largest provider of on-demand video in the US, for failing to provide captions on... |
| 16 June 2011 |
US non-profit group sues CNN.com for uncaptioned online video A Berkeley-based non-profit group has filed a lawsuit against Time Warner for allegedly discriminating against the Deaf and hearing impaired by not... |
| 15 June 2011 |
Vodafone Foundation Accessibility Awards promote apps for disabled and elderly Vodafone Foundation has launched a competition to promote the development of software applications that improve the lives of people with disabilities... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 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... |
| 26 May 2011 |
NBC Learn captions educational videos to include all learners NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News in the US, has announced that it will provide closed captioning on educational videos available on NBCLearn.... |
| 13 May 2011 |
Irish captioning provider offers live captioning and streaming service Premier Captioning and Realtime Ltd. in Ireland has launched a new live streaming and captioning service for online events. |
| 11 May 2011 |
The SubStation introduces fast captioning service for TV commercials Australian access company The SubStation has introduced a new service called Captionflow which will allow captions for TV commercials to be ordered... |
| 11 May 2011 |
Google launches live captions on YouTube at Google I/O For the first time, people who are Deaf or hearing impaired can watch the live video stream of Google I/O, Google’s developer conference, with live... |
| 06 May 2011 |
Football fan sues American university over lack of captioning at games A hearing impaired man who attends University of Kentucky home football games at Commonwealth Stadium, has filed a case in a US district court to try... |