In a bid to encourage people to use captions at home this video explains that children's literacy can increase dramatically if captions are turned on.
The short public service announcement can be viewed on YouTube.
The competition requires you to either create an accessible website for a nonprofit arts community, artist or musician, or critique the accessibility of select websites and redesign one page for accessibility. Prizes will be awarded at the opening of the SXSW Music and Film Interactive Festival on 11 March.
AIR-Interactive has gone global after web developers from all over the world expressed an interest in participating. The competition was previously available only to Texan web developers.
The American Association of the Deaf-Blind, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Association of Late-Deafened Adults and the Hearing Loss Association of America are among the groups asking
Ofcom surveyed deaf people with different levels of hearing loss to assess the use and value of current text relay and other services and whether or not new technologies provide better means of communication for Deaf and hearing impaired people.
Key findings of the survey were that:
