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Top 12 of 2012 #4 – captions come to SBS online

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In July, SBS became the second Australian television network to offer captions on its catch-up service.

The technology that makes SBS’s online closed captioning possible is a point of innovation. A system was developed by SBS which automatically reformats pre-prepared captions which were broadcast on television. It has not yet been possible to provide captions for live content, such as news and sport, but SBS has informed us that this is an issue they are working to resolve.


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Sydney Opera House introduces captioned online videos

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As part of the 3 December celebration of International Day of People with Disabilities, Sydney Opera House has published the first four of 31 closed captioned videos from its 2012 Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI).

In keeping with the House’s recent captioning award for entertainment, cinema & the arts captioning, its commitment to providing accessible arts continues with the development of a new accessible video player and the top four FODI session videos captioned for everyone’s enjoyment.


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Accessible DVD releases for November 2012

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There have been 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months with closed captions and audio description. Of the 69 titles we researched, 53 were captioned (or 77 per cent) and 21 described (or 30 per cent).

Distributors 20th Century Fox, Eagle, Paramount, Pinnacle, Rialto and Sony Universal all had titles released internationally with either captions or subtitles that were not released in Region 4, a market which includes Australia, New Zealand, South America and Oceania.

The titles with both audio description and captions are:


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