Roberta: Ally Woodford from Media Access Australia is joining us today to update us on the latest DVDs with audio description that have been released to the Australian market. Welcome, Ally.
Ally: Thank you, Roberta.
Roberta: I always like to start with a bang and find out what the big name titles are that are on the DVD shelves at the moment, so what do we have?
This could explain why captioner Javier Arriaga was welcomed onto the stage at the Deafness Forum Captioning Awards this month with cheers and whistles. Presenting him with the award for ‘Most consistent captioning’, Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley called him “the best captioner in Australia, probably the world”.
The winners were for each category were:
Roma Wood Community Award: Wayne Hawkins, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)
DVD captioning: Warner Home Video
Most consistent use of captions: Javier Arriaga, The Sub Station
Best promotion of captioning: Ai-Media for Ai-Live
TV Captioning: TV Award is Fox Sports for Hyundai A-League
Best new captioning initiative: ABC iView for the iView iPad App and the Australian Communications Exchange for Smart Auslan and captions for the Melbourne Sports Museum
