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| 17 April 2012 |
Government to provide free accessible set-top boxes Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has announced that talking set-top boxes will be distributed... |
| 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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| 15 December 2011 |
Top accessible gifts for the festive season If someone you know is blind, vision impaired, Deaf or hearing impaired, there are a number of accessible gifts that can help improve their access to... |
| 15 December 2011 |
Blind Citizens Australia calls for an accessible FOXTEL Blind Citizens Australia (BCA) has called on subscription TV provider FOXTEL to make its equipment and programming accessible for people who are... |
| 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... |
| 11 November 2011 |
New organisation to make online video more accessible for blind and vision impaired people The Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRCD) is a new organisation funded by the US Department of Education which will investigate... |
| 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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| 26 October 2011 |
Access to Adelaide library increased for people who are blind and vision impaired Onkaparinga City Council has been successful in their bid for 15 DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital playback devices under the... |
| 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... |
| 19 October 2011 |
Access conference calls for papers The Roundtable on Print Disability, hosted by the Western Australian Association for the Blind, is calling for papers for its April 2012 conference... |
| 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... |
| 13 October 2011 |
Report from America on a world leading education initiative The Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) is a US initiative run by the Department of Education and the National Association of the Deaf. Its... |
| 11 October 2011 |
TV station found in breach of license due to caption failure The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that Nine Network affiliate NBN failed to show the TV Week Logie Awards with... |