A mobile site has also been made available, increasing access to ABC news for Deaf and hearing impaired users on the move, who might use devices and applications that do not support captions.
The captions are displayed in a block format and currently do not distinguish between speakers, normally conveyed through the placement of captions or the use of colour.
The tveeder blog says the service is designed to aid Deaf and hearing impaired people assess the quality of captions on television. If enough interest is shown in tveeder, the service may be extended to cover other ABC channels.
The name ‘tveeder’ is a combination of ‘television’ and ‘RSS feeder’, reflecting the idea that television can be read as a stream of text like an RSS feeder reads the text of a web page. The service is currently still in development.
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