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18 June 2015 |
Government announces review of the ACMA The Department of Communications is undertaking a comprehensive review of Australia’s communications regulator, the Australian Communications and... |
17 June 2015 |
Accessible trailers help you decide Many movies are available with captions and/or audio description at cinemas, on DVD and some video-on-demand (VOD) services. But how do you decide... |
16 June 2015 |
Captioning helps ASD students One of the identified audiences for Media Access Australia’s CAP THAT! campaign is students with diverse learning needs. This includes students who... |
16 June 2015 |
Affordable Access secures grant funding Media Access Australia has secured an Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN) grant for its Affordable Access project, which will... |
16 June 2015 |
Android Wear 5.1.1 includes long-awaited accessibility features The latest version of the Android Wear operating system version 5.1.1 includes several new accessibility features which allows wearable devices to... |
11 June 2015 |
Chinese tech giant Baidu announces Blind Search device China’s leading search engine provider Baidu has announced the Blind Search device, a tool to assist blind and vision impaired people access “massive... |
09 June 2015 |
Captions aid literacy in the classroom Worldwide studies have identified that captions can play a vital role in improving literacy levels of students. Improving reading skills is... |
09 June 2015 |
UK disability advocates release roadmap for VOD accessibility The accessibility of video-on-demand (VOD) services is a hot topic in Australia, the UK and other countries at the moment. There have been calls for... |
05 June 2015 |
ACMA releases caption compliance reports for 2013-2014 The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released the annual captioning compliance reports for free-to-air and subscription... |
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26 May 2015 |
UK regulator releases caption quality report The UK communications regulator Ofcom has released the third of four planned reports on the quality of live captioning on television. |
21 May 2015 |
NZ increases funding for captioning and audio description NZ On Air, the New Zealand Government’s broadcast funding agency, has announced that it will increase its funding for captioning and audio... |
15 May 2015 |
Web and PDF Accessibility: New Tools for Changing Times Tim Connell, Managing Director at adaptive technology company Quantum talks about web and document accessibility. Tim spoke to media Access Australia... |
14 May 2015 |
Digital TV regulation submissions released The Federal Government has released the submissions it has received in response to its review of digital television regulations, with a number of... |
13 May 2015 |
New video player designed for the blind released The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has released a revolutionary video player which makes it easy for blind and vision impaired people to... |
11 May 2015 |
Government sector must improve digital experience The government sector has been found to deliver the worst digital experiences of a range of Australian industries in a new report by consulting firm... |
11 May 2015 |
Case Study: Municipal Association of Victoria unlocks power of digital accessibility The peak body representing local councils in the Australian state of Victoria partners with Media Access Australia to deliver upskilling, training... |
07 May 2015 |
Hawaii makes cinema access compulsory The US state of Hawaii has brought in state legislation to mandate the provision of captions and audio description (described as “descriptive... |
07 May 2015 |
Lessons from Skandia Bank’s accessibility journey Norwegian bank Skandiabanken’s Snorre Kim discusses why a major national bank decided to put digital accessibility at the front and centre of its... |
06 May 2015 |
Consumers encouraged to nominate accessible apps Users of mobile device apps have been encouraged to nominate their favourite accessible apps for the 2015 Apps For All Challenge. |
05 May 2015 |
Report on the state of captioning in Europe released The European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH) has released a report which looks at the levels of captioning on television, video-on-... |