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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 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,... |
| 08 July 2011 |
Victorian Government releases access guidelines for colour blindness The Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development has developed guidelines to improve access to visual materials for people with colour... |
| 08 July 2011 |
Captioned online videos promote assistive technology for learning A Canadian education group has provided eight online captioned videos promoting the use of assistive technology for students for reading, writing and... |
| 07 July 2011 |
Disney offers audio description technology for outdoor attractions Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort theme park patrons will now be able to receive audio description when outdoors at the attraction parks. |
| 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... |
| 07 July 2011 |
Convergence Review Emerging Issues Paper released The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released an Emerging Issues Paper as part of the Commonwealth... |
| 05 July 2011 |
WA Government announces WCAG implementation timelines The State Government of Western Australia has formally announced that it will aim to achieve WCAG 2.0 ‘A’ or ‘AA’ compliance by the end of 2013... |
| 01 July 2011 |
Hearing date set for JetBlue Accessibility Case A date has been set for the hearing of the disability access case against JetBlue Airways, with the airway asking the magistrate to dismiss the case. |
| 01 July 2011 |
Florida State University sued for inaccessible eLearning system Florida State University is the latest US institution to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to provide learning materials... |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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... |
| 29 June 2011 |
NV Access awarded Mozilla grant to improve NVDA Mozilla has awarded NV Access an $80,000 grant to improve its free and open source screen reader for Windows, Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA). |
| 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 |
CSU cautions use of Google apps due to accessibility issues A report by the Accessible Technology Initiative at California State University has cautioned US universities on campus-wide adoption of Google’s... |
| 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 |
Ofcom publishes 2012 TV access requirements Ofcom, the UK media and communications regulator, has published its mid-year statement on 2012 TV access requirements, requiring increased captioning... |
| 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... |
| 23 June 2011 |
UK travel company websites fall short on basic accessibility An investigation into the accessibility of the top ten UK travel company websites has shown that none of these websites met the most basic level of... |