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Media Access Australia's response to the Media Access Review

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Submissions have now closed for the Federal Government’s Media Access Review.  It is expected that the full range of submissions will be posted on the Department of Communications website in the next few weeks.  Media Access Australia will provide some summaries and comments on the main issues raised then. 

In the meantime, MAA provided a full submission to the review.

Read Media Access Australia's full response to the review.

 

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Research & policy

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Region 1 catching up on DVD access

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As often reported, the UK and more recently Australia lead the world in audio described DVDs. In January statistics, audio described new release rental titles in Australia reached 24%, which is comparable to UK levels. 

Set to join us in the foreseeable future is Region 1, which consists of Canada, the USA and USA territories. Historically, Region 1 has been lucky to receive five audio described releases per year. But as a reaction to consistent consumer demand, some major DVD distributors have committed to releasing their audio described theatrical releases to DVD with the description soundtrack included. In 2009, 10 titles were release with audio description, mostly towards the end of the year. 2010 will undoubtedly break records for Region 1 audio described DVD fans. 

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Australian Home Entertainment Distributors Association
Video
Blind or vision impaired
Deaf or hearing impaired
Audio description

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Apple iPad launched with iPhone-like accessibility features

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Apple has announced the launch of its latest handheld device called the Apple iPad, a touch screen device that functions like an iPhone but is the size of a netbook, with a 9.7” screen. It also comes with the same suite of accessibility features that have been available on the iPhone 3GS.

The accessibility features contained in the iPad include the VoiceOver screen reader, zoom functionality, the ability to reverse the colour scheme, the ability to play back captioned video and the ability to change the sound from stereo to a mono output. 

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Digital technology

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