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MEDIA ACCESS NEWS
BBC set to launch online captions on iPlayer
Ofcom releases final access report for 2006
Mastering captioning and audio description
Closed captions on Flash videos
New solutions for AD on television unveiled in the UK
Mobile TV delayed
More online captioning innovations
Red Bee Media wins French captioning contract
USA’s Air Carrier Access Act delayed
MAA’s caption information roadshow
Media access features at print disability conference
Annual Deafness Forum captioning awards
FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION
Problems with digital captions
FCC clarifies obligation to caption emergency information
Free-to-air television complaints
GOVERNMENT ACCESS POLICIES
Tassie updates access policy
CAPTIONED TV COMMERCIALS SURVEY
SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION
MAA releases CSAs for subscription television
Sky’s ‘Gnome’ an aid to the blind
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAPTIONING IN THE UNITED STATES
DVDs
HREOC convenes DVD Round table
Access on the 2006 top sellers
Access on the 2006 top-selling children’s titles
Access on new-release DVDs
Access on sell-through and television series titles
Access on Blu-ray DVDs
Closed captions on US DVDs
CINEMA
Captioning in Australian cinemas
R&D for cinema captioning systems
No audio description in Australian cinemas yet
Captioned movie trailers and audio described samples in the UK
THEATRE
Audio description and the arts – the next step?
World-wide wrap-up of theatre captioning methods
Queensland Theatre Company Introduces Captioning
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