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| 01 August 2011 |
UK project to help bring music to cochlear users Cochlear implants help those with severe to profound hearing loss perceive speech but the technology has difficulties communicating the complexities... |
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| 27 July 2011 |
Commentary: Getty-Google partnership misses the mark on accessibility The Getty Museum recently announced that it would be the first museum to collaborate with Google, and using Google’s image recognition application... |
| 26 July 2011 |
UK Festival Awards puts more focus on festival accessibility The UK Festival Awards is the annual awards for the contemporary music festival industry and the benchmark by which festival goers rate their... |
| 06 July 2011 |
Federal Government announces support for Arts Access Australia Arts Access Australia, the national peak body for arts and disability, has been granted $500,000 by the Australian Government to continue its work in... |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| 22 June 2011 |
DeafTechNews releases instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish US technology review group DeafTechNews has created two short instructional videos on CaptiView and Captionfish. |
| 17 June 2011 |
Tickets to audio described theatre session in Perth available until 12 July Ticket sales for the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s audio described performance of Rising Water will close on 12 July. |
| 10 June 2011 |
Accessible Cinema Advisory Group releases second communiqué The Accessible Cinema Advisory Group (ACAG) met in late May to discuss the continued rollout of accessible cinema locations across the four major... |
| 10 June 2011 |
ABC’s 7.30 program highlights Screen Australia’s audio description policy Screen Australia’s announcement yesterday of its new audio description policy for feature films was highlighted on last night’s 7.30 on the ABC. |
| 09 June 2011 |
Screen Australia announces new audio description policy Screen Australia, the Federal Government’s funding body for the screen production industry, has announced a new funding condition that requires films... |
| 09 June 2011 |
New Broadway theatre accessibility initiative A new partnership between Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts and arts access provider G-PASS means visitors to New York will have the opportunity to... |
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| 31 May 2011 |
Media Access Review progress page launched Today Media Access Australia launched a new webpage in our Research and Policy section detailing the progress which has so far been made on the Media... |
| 30 May 2011 |
Report on captioning in the European Union released The European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH) has released a report which looks at levels of captioning on audiovisual media across the... |
| 24 May 2011 |
World-leading arts access conference in USA in August The annual Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) conference will be held this year in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. |
| 20 May 2011 |
Australian festival director takes cinema access across the globe Film and festival director Rick Randall, Artistic Director of The Other Film Festival, has travelled to Israel where he will participate as keynote... |
| 16 May 2011 |
Audio described contemporary art tour at Art Gallery of NSW The Art Gallery of NSW is holding an audio described tour of the new John Kaldor Family Gallery on Sunday, 22 May at 1:30pm. |
| 13 May 2011 |
Dr Zhivago to be audio described in Melbourne New Australian musical Dr Zhivago will be audio described for one show only at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne. |
| 10 May 2011 |
American cinema chain to provide captioning and audio description in theatres nationwide Leading motion picture exhibitor Regal Entertainment Group, which owns and operates the largest theatre circuit in the United States, has announced... |
| 05 May 2011 |
New service improves accessibility of museum tours for the deaf A new service from the Australian Communication Exchange will improve the accessibility of museum tours for the Deaf and hearing impaired. |