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| 06 August 2013 |
Campaign for a more accessible Netflix Accessibility advocates are leading a campaign to make US-based video streaming service Netflix more accessible to people with disabilities. The... |
| 05 August 2013 |
Let’s end CAPTCHA for good A campaign has been launched in Australia asking some of the world’s largest companies to lead the way and phase out the use of CAPTCHAs across the... |
| 02 August 2013 |
Finding the right screen reader Our information on screen readers has been updated to help you find the one that best suits your needs. |
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| 31 July 2013 |
Using captions to teach for literacy With National Literacy and Numeracy Week in full swing, teachers are learning about how watching multimedia with captions can improve literacy. Why... |
| 31 July 2013 |
Foxtel’s online service launches without captions Foxtel yesterday launched Foxtel Play, a service which delivers TV programs via the internet to a variety of devices. Unfortunately for Deaf and... |
| 30 July 2013 |
Getting online with Google: register today Google is running a workshop for older people and those with disabilities on how to get the most out of the internet. |
| 29 July 2013 |
Switch on captions for National Literacy and Numeracy Week Media Access Australia is marking National Literacy and Numeracy (NLNW) week by asking teachers to turn on captions in the classroom via its CAP THAT... |
| 25 July 2013 |
In case you missed it: Media Access Australia in the headlines We’ve been almost everywhere on the web lately. We wanted to let our website visitors and news alert subscribers stay in the loop on the access news... |
| 24 July 2013 |
Mozilla’s Firefox OS: accessibility to be included The not-for-profit technology organisation Mozilla is releasing its first operating system for mobile devices, Firefox OS, and its accessibility... |
| 23 July 2013 |
Research to make white canes smarter A new device is being developed by Curtin University researchers which uses sensors to enhance the white canes used by people who are blind and... |
| 22 July 2013 |
Accessible movies at the Melbourne International Film Festival The annual Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will host four audio described and open captioned movies this year. The four feature-length... |
| 19 July 2013 |
Review of the Panasonic Smart Viera TH-L42E6A, a ‘talking TV’ with Voice Guidance Panasonic’s 2013 range of Viera ‘smart TVs’ are the first in Australia to have a text-to-speech function which will be of great benefit to blind and... |
| 17 July 2013 |
Online captioning rules clarified in the US The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has clarified how it will deal with requirements to caption online videos, caption quality standards, and... |
| 17 July 2013 |
New online video service to have 100% captioning Films14 is an online subscription service which is set to commence in 2014, and plans to have captioning on all of the movies and TV shows it makes... |
| 16 July 2013 |
Greens crowdsource map of physical access barriers A new app has been developed by the Australian Greens which gathers information on physical accessibility barriers from the public. The app allows... |
| 11 July 2013 |
Informing the next generation of media makers For the first time, Media Access Australia spoke at the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) conference in Brisbane last week. The presentation, given... |
| 10 July 2013 |
Lack of audio description a breach of human rights Blind Citizens Australia (BCA) yesterday lodged 21 disability discrimination complaints against the Federal Government and the ABC for failing to... |
| 09 July 2013 |
Australian Web Awards recognise accessibility Nominations for the Australian Web Awards are now open, including the accessibility category. |
| 04 July 2013 |
WCAG 2.0 under fire in new research Controversial research has been published damning the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as system for achieving equal access to the web... |
| 01 July 2013 |
Australia signs treaty to boost access to books People who are blind or vision impaired will have increased access to books and other print media after an international copyright treaty was signed... |