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| 26 May 2014 |
Sports channel fined for not meeting audio description target Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has fined the sports channel ESPN £120,000 (AU$218,778) for not meeting its audio description target... |
| 21 May 2014 |
The digital accessible cinema chain: Part 2 – The role of distributors In the second part of our three-part series on accessible cinema, Media Access Australia project manager Ally Woodford looks at the role distributors... |
| 16 May 2014 |
Now you can tweet accessible images Accessible Twitter service Easy Chirp used Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2014 to announce a new feature that allows users to tweet images with a... |
| 16 May 2014 |
Nine’s captioners audited for quality Ai-Media, the caption supplier for the Nine Network, has released the results of its first external caption quality audit, scoring more than 99%... |
| 15 May 2014 |
Global Accessibility Awareness Day: 10 things everyone can do to improve access to media To celebrate the third Global Accessibility Day, we have compiled a list of tips that everyone can use to make someone’s experience of media a little... |
| 14 May 2014 |
Audio description seminar calls for papers The 5th Advanced Research Seminar on Audio Description (ARSAD) will be held in Barcelona on 19-20 March, 2015, and organisers are calling on experts... |
| 13 May 2014 |
Global Accessibility Awareness Day: events in your city Thursday 15 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day dedicated to raising the profile of digital accessibility and people with... |
| 09 May 2014 |
The digital accessible cinema chain: Part 1 – The overall picture and stakeholders In this three-part series, Media Access Australia project manager Ally Woodford looks at the stakeholders and roles they play in making movies... |
| 07 May 2014 |
Audio description to be celebrated at US conference The Third Audio Description Project Conference, to be held in Las Vegas next month, will highlight how audio description continues to develop as an... |
| 06 May 2014 |
UK theatre captioners receive research funding UK charity Nesta has just announced its latest round of funding recipients under its Digital Research and Development Fund for the Arts. One of the... |
| 02 May 2014 |
Naughty behaviour from Canadian porn channel The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has warned Channel Zero, a Toronto-based company that provides three... |
| 02 May 2014 |
Google Glass apps for people with disability trialled by Telstra The potential benefits of Google Glass for people with disability are becoming a reality thanks to a partnership between Telstra and app developers... |
| 01 May 2014 |
UK media regulator releases first caption quality report On October 2013, the UK communications regulator Ofcom announced that it would be requiring broadcasters to measure and report on the quality of... |
| 01 May 2014 |
Captioning to increase in the Netherlands The Dutch culture ministry is introducing new requirements for closed captioning on television, which will now include the commercial television... |
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| 30 April 2014 |
Kill CAPTCHA campaign update: send culprits a letter The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has published a letter for people to send to companies that use inaccessible CAPTCHAs. |
| 30 April 2014 |
US government agency sued for inaccessibility An accessibility law suit has been brought against the United States General Services Administration (GSA) alleging that its website, SAM.gov, is... |
| 29 April 2014 |
Developments in audio described video on demand Canadian company Zagga TV is the latest initiative to provide blind and vision impaired viewers with a comprehensive, audio described video on demand... |
| 24 April 2014 |
A look into the future of captioning Advances in technology have the potential to streamline the captioning process and make captioning more affordable without sacrificing quality,... |
| 23 April 2014 |
Australia urged to ease copyright restrictions on accessible books On World Book Day, the Australian Government has been called on to ease the copyright restrictions which reduce the number of books that are... |
| 17 April 2014 |
University entrance now possible for blind students in China Thanks to a change in regulation, blind and vision impaired students in China will be given access to mainstream higher education. |