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Captions in the arts
Captions allow a wider range of people to enjoy the theatre experience, essential for the 4.5 million Australians who are Deaf or hearing impaired.
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Find accessible movies
Here is our step-by-step guide to finding accessible movie sessions with CC and AD on each major cinema website.
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At the cinema
Many cinemas are making it easier for people with a hearing or vision impairment to go to the movies. Here's what you can expect.
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Call for proposals for leading accessible arts conference
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The professional LEAD network explores practical methods of providing accessibility to the arts as well as sharing information among arts administrators and managers in the field of accessible arts.
The fifteenth annual conference will run at the Kennedy Center from 5-7 August, with pre-conference sessions on 3 and 4 August.
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Telstra introduces captions on BigPond Movies
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To find the captioned titles on BigPond Movies, click on ‘Movies’ on the home page, then ‘Open Captions’, which will bring up a list of them. The initial titles include The Lego Movie, Transcendence, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Veronica Mars. Because the captions are ‘open’, they will be visible when played on all devices.
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Leading Australian arts and disability conference is fully accessible
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The two-day conference features streams covering access through technology, creative practice, audience development, international collaborations, disability-led practice and community connections. The extensive program features 85 speakers from across Australia and the world.
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Phillipines introduce accessible cinema, inspired by American legislation
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The event showcased closed captioned and audio described movies, allowing people who are Deaf and hearing impaired, blind and vision impaired to enjoy cinema along with their hearing and sighted family and friends.
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Caption developments for cinema and the arts
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In an update on last year’s article on the Off-Screen Cinema Subtitling System we’ve learned that testing of this new technology has taken place in a UK cinema with the next stage being to finalise software for cinemas to use.
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