Research & policy
Access 2020 predicting the future – five experts, 20 ideas
Disability commissioner calls for accessibility guidelines in government procurement
Helping seniors with disabilities get online
sociABILITY: social media for people with disability
Caption quality: International approaches to standards and measurement
Media Access Australia has released a white paper entitled Caption quality: International approaches to standards and measurement. It focuses on issues surrounding the live captioning of TV programs, the difficulties in measuring caption quality effectively, and some of the solutions that have been proposed.
The white paper, which is the first in a planned series, was written by our Project manager for television, Chris Mikul, and sponsored by Red Bee Media Australia.
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Previewing Access 2020 – can we predict the future?
A mix of speculation and building on current real-world trends and experiences, the panel will discuss a variety of themes based around disability access to television and related services in 2020:
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Our research
Media Access Australia has put together a list of useful research and policy databases for those interested in finding out more.
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Australian access regulation
Australia currently has a variety of legislative and policy instruments which mandate and support accessibility.
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Convergence Review
In the world of communications technology, ‘convergence’ refers to the major platforms (broadcasting, telecommunications and online) coming together so that their once separate functions overlap.
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