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| 22 April 2013 |
2013 Access Awards winners announced The winners of the 2013 Access Awards presented by the American Foundation for the Blind have been announced, honouring the work of organisations... |
| 19 April 2013 |
Accessible DVDs released in March 2013 At least 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months have been made accessible with closed captions and audio description. Of the 60 titles we... |
| 19 April 2013 |
Captioning on digital multichannels The Federal Government is due to introduce new regulations regarding captioning on digital multichannels like GO!, 7Two, Eleven and ABC2 which will... |
| 18 April 2013 |
Emergency information accessibility required in US Subscription TV providers and program owners in the USA have been ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make emergency... |
| 17 April 2013 |
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013 Thursday 9 May marks the second annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day dedicated to raising the profile of web accessibility amongst web... |
| 12 April 2013 |
Feature: SIMO – Australia’s indoor mapping project For most people, great ideas are triggered by an event or experience that pushes them to do something. For Sydney industrial designer Euan Ramsey-... |
| 11 April 2013 |
Women with disability disadvantaged in ICT The digital divide experienced by people with disability is wider for women, new research finds. A report released by Women with Disabilities... |
| 10 April 2013 |
Opinion: The scourge of YouTube’s auto-captions Michael Lockrey is Asia-Pacific sales manager for Amara and a renowned advocate for Deaf and hearing impaired media access. Here, he dissects the... |
| 09 April 2013 |
Report on the accessibility of Electronic Program Guides Media Access Australia has released a report on electronic program guides (EPGs) and how television networks and content providers display access... |
| 08 April 2013 |
SBS falls short with DVD access As part of a series of home entertainment accessibility reports outside regular entertainment DVD titles, Media Access Australia has collated... |
| 05 April 2013 |
Easy Chirp seeks funding for update Update 12 June: Easy Chirp's Kickstarter campaign successfully raised over $5000. The platform is going down temporarily from today while the new... |
| 04 April 2013 |
New Zealand to have independent captioning supplier Captioning and audio description services for New Zealand television, which are currently provided by the government-owned national broadcaster TVNZ... |
| 02 April 2013 |
Google Chromebook: an accessible and affordable netbook Google has finally launched its long-awaited netbook in Australia. This is welcome news for anyone who wants access to an affordable and light-weight... |
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| 28 March 2013 |
Television access in the UK: 2012 in review Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released its final report on the provision of access services on television for 2012. As in previous... |
| 26 March 2013 |
US senator introduces legislation for accessible entertainment The impact of access legislation in the USA has had a ripple effect around the world. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act,... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Results of UK caption quality survey released A survey on the quality of television captioning, conducted by Action on Hearing Loss, the largest deafness advocacy organisation in the UK, has... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Rear Window Captioning drops license fee One of the most established cinema closed caption systems, Rear Window Captioning (RWC), is going to be more cost effective for cinemas to install.... |
| 20 March 2013 |
Overcoming audio description’s technical hurdles Following the 2012 trial on ABC1, Media Access Australia has compiled a briefing paper outlining how Australia’s television industry can overcome the... |
| 18 March 2013 |
The history of cinema captioning, as told by a pioneer American captioning advocate and blogger Shanna Groves has posted the second interview in her series on movie accessibility for people who are Deaf... |
| 18 March 2013 |
Samsung Galaxy S4 accessibility Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, was launched on Friday with Samsung claiming the device would “bury” its biggest rival, the iPhone 5.... |