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ABC launches new education site with captioned videos

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The ABC has partnered with Education Services Australia in launching Splash, a new educational website offering a range of multimedia resources including captioned content.

Splash provides free articles, videos, audio clips and games linked to the new Australian Curriculum. The extensive online library covers maths, English, history and science for primary and secondary students up to Year 10, with other subjects to be added in future.

The site also gives teachers topic collections and ideas for incorporating Splash content into the classroom, as well as useful tips for parents.

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Feature: Aussie TV finds its voice

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As the trial of audio description on ABC1 draws to a close, we met with the talented captioners turned describers tasked with finding a voice fitting of the ABC's uniquely Australian drama.

A man walks into a bar.

Or is it a restaurant? Maybe it’s a train station. Or it could be a hospital and the man is actually a woman.

This is the process each of Australia’s 600,000 blind and vision impaired people go through when they watch TV. Dialogue, music and sound effects go a long way to tell a story. But without knowing what’s on screen, watching TV becomes a guessing game.

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Transcript: Hunger Games with audio description - Katnis hunting

Signs on a tall wire fence read “District boundary: no access beyond this point” and “high voltage”. Katnis steps through a gap in the wires and into the woods beyond. She glances around before reaching into the hollow of a fallen tree. She draws out a wooden bow. From another tree she plucks out a sheath of arrows and straps it over her shoulder.

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Captioning Award winners announced

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Last night the Deafness Forum of Australia celebrated the achievements of the media and entertainment industry in providing access to the one in six Australians who are Deaf or hearing impaired. Hosted by Rodney Adams, an Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf, the evening was a celebration of the impact of captions on literacy, human rights and social inclusion.

The winners in each category were:

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Netflix to caption 100% of its content

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Netflix, the popular US-based video on demand service, has reached an agreement with the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to provide 100% of its content with captions by 2014.

In 2010, the NAD, the Western Massachusetts Association of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and Lee Nettles brought a suit against Netflix for its lack of captioning. Since then, Netflix has increased its captioning levels so that 90% of content currently being viewed has captions. Increasing this to 100% is a significant victory for the Deaf and hearing impaired, and in important step in the ongoing struggle to make online video content accessible.

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