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May 2010
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21 May 2010 Researcher receives award for using social media to support the education of people with disabilities
Yesterday the Hon. Bill Shorten MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities, announced Dr Denise Wood as the inaugural winner of the Telstra-TJA...
13 May 2010 Accessibility training provider to live caption webinars
 Equal Access to Software and Information (EASI), a provider of online training in accessibility-related topics, has announced that all of its fee-...
04 May 2010 Android product releases leading to greater access
Google, the world's largest search provider, looks set to achieve greater market share in the mobile market with its Android operating system being...
03 May 2010 Captioned online game shows government support for WCAG 2.0
The Federal Attorney-General's Department has released an online game teaching kids about the 000 emergency number with closed captions,...
April 2010
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30 April 2010 Hiccup' leads White House to focus on web accessibility standard
The White House promises to pay more attention to the Section 508 accessibility standard for people who have a disability when developing Web sites...
23 April 2010 WAI updates resources to encourage better web accessibility
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has update three primary documents to help encourage developers and user to work together towards better...
15 April 2010 RNIB empowers blind and vision impaired Windows users through new book
The UK's Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has published a new book, Windows 7 and Vista Explained, a guide for users of Windows 7 and...
March 2010
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24 March 2010 YouTube accessible interface alternative now available
The YouTube website has often been criticised in disability circles for its accessibility issues, namely its lack of keyboard control of videos and...
23 March 2010 Popular accessibility book now freely available online
 If you are looking for a resource that talks about accessibility in user-centred design (UCD) and gives practical advice about including people with...
05 March 2010 New cinema access system moves to development phase
SightCine, a Los Angeles based start-up company, has secured development funding to create a prototype of its caption glasses concept. The idea is...
02 March 2010 Research into synthesised speech and audio description
IBM Research-Japan and WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) are conducting a joint study via an online...
February 2010
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24 February 2010 Government websites to be WCAG 2.0 compliant by 2015
The Australian government announced today that it will join the international community by committing to the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Web...
23 February 2010 Deaf actor inspires ABC.com to caption online
The Oscar winning Deaf actor Marlee Matlin inspired Disney so much that it agreed to expand its online captioning efforts.
16 February 2010 Tutorial videos for PowerPoint access freely available online
Online videos that highlight the steps needed to ensure the accessibility of PowerPoint presentation slides are now available for free viewing.
January 2010
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08 January 2010 Kurzweil to release free interactive Blio e-reader with access features
Kurzweil, best known for its development of SMS on mobile phones and assistive technology products, will release a free PC e-reader application...
December 2009
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21 December 2009 UK sets further steps for Video On Demand access
Ofcom, the UK broadcast regulator, has set out further conditions for industry providing access for vision impaired and hearing impaired people...
18 December 2009 New challenges ahead for an accessible web
As the end of the year approaches, it is worth considering the strides that have been made in making the web accessible to all. Only recently Media...
15 December 2009 Inclusive design the key to Twitter's survival?
What will determine the future success of social media players? A report by Media Access Australia suggests that players such as Twitter will have to...

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