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Football fan sues American university over lack of captioning at games

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A hearing impaired man who attends University of Kentucky home football games at Commonwealth Stadium, has filed a case in a US district court to try to force the university to provide captioning of all announcements during the games.

The man, Charles Mitchell, said that captions for announcements over the public address system could be displayed on video boards and monitors, and not doing so was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

He has asked the court to issue a permanent injunction ordering the University of Kentucky to provide Deaf and hearing impaired people with equal access to all activities and services during games.

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Captions
International policy and legislation
Deaf or hearing impaired
Americans with Disabilities Act
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New service improves accessibility of museum tours for the deaf

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A new service from the Australian Communication Exchange will improve the accessibility of museum tours for the Deaf and hearing impaired.

The Smart Auslan service transcribes museum audio tours into captions as well as translating them into AUSLAN (Australian sign language) for the Deaf and hearing impaired.

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Captions
Museums
Cinema
The arts
News
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Android smartphones
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Convergence Review web section launched

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Media Access Australia today added a new section to our website, detailing information about the Commonwealth Government’s Convergence Review.

The new section includes an overview of The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s (the DBCDE’s) review into convergent media, with details of how you can get involved.

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Sensory impairment
Inclusion
Research & policy
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Media Access Report 18, Autumn 2011

CONTENTS

Media Access News

Canadian access coalition calls for 100% accessibility by 2020

Ofcom publishes Single Equality Scheme Annual Report

US communications regulator proposes new access rules

UK study looks at 3D audio description guidelines

Disney sued over lack of accessibility

Government announces the Terms of Reference for the Convergence Review

Television

A new regime for television captioning

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Ofcom releases report on access to EPGs

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Ofcom, the British media and communications regulator, has released a report into the accessibility of Electronic Program Guides (EPGs).

Under British communications law, EPG providers must produce annual statements of the steps they have taken and plan to take to facilitate the use of EPGs by people with disabilities.

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General
International policy and legislation
Sensory impairment
Research & policy
News
Ofcom, Office of Communications

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Latest W3C column looks at web browser and screen reader compatibility

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The latest W3C column from Media Access Australia’s Dr Scott Hollier examines 2011’s updates to web browsers and screen readers and what the best options are for screen reader users.

This year has seen major technology releases with Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 4 and updates to screen readers NVDA and JAWS.

Most updates are linked to developments in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organisation responsible for making web standards such as HTML, the code that makes web pages possible. 

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General
Digital technology
Web
News
Practical web accessibility
Digital media and technology: 
Screen readers
Web browsers

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New device assists vision impaired to understand graphics

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A new prototype tablet device developed by Monash University may soon make accessing diagrams for people who are vision impaired easier.

The tablet, called GraVVITAS uses a standard touch screen tablet PC combined with sound, vibration and voice prompts to help guide the user to read the diagram.

PhD candidate Cagatay Goncu who, along with Professor Kim Marriott is working on GraVVITAS said, “The basic idea is to guide the user to find the object by using sound. Touching the object causes the sound to stop and a voice explains what that object is and any other information associated with it.”

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Digital technology
News
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