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International accessible art professionals to give free lectures in Adelaide

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This August, Adelaide will play host to the British audio describer, Willie Elliot, and artistic director, Daryl Beeton for a free program on accessible arts thanks to South Australia’s Disability Arts Transition Team (DATT).

Willie Elliot is a professional audio describer with experience in describing theatre, opera, dance, circus, visual arts, architecture, live events, TV, film and online.  He will present a forum on audio description and run professional audio description training. 

Daryl Beeton, Artistic Director of London-based inclusive theatre company Kazzum, will deliver three workshops that explore the idea of integrating access elements into the creation of performance.

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UK Festival Awards puts more focus on festival accessibility

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The UK Festival Awards is the annual awards for the contemporary music festival industry and the benchmark by which festival goers rate their experiences. Considered a coveted prize for organisers, this year’s awards will include disabled access in the criteria.

Generated by the Attitude is Everything campaign which aims to improve deaf and disabled people’s access to live music events, the judging criteria will be across all categories, but the winner of the Best Grassroots Festival will receive a  £1,000 bursary to go towards access and disability equality training.

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YouTube expands automatic captioning to other languages

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YouTube, which introduced automatic captions for English language videos in 2009, has now expanded the service to Japanese videos.

The captions are created using Google’s speech recognition technology, and while the quality is variable, video owners can download the caption files and edit them. Caption files can also be also be translated into 50 other languages.

In March this year, YouTube began rolling out automatic captioning to all the English language videos it hosts. Video owners can speed up the process by clicking on a ‘request processing’ button.

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Nominations for the Captioning Awards close soon

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Nominations for the Deafness Forum’s Captioning Awards close on 29 July. The awards present an opportunity to celebrate the steps media and others have taken towards access over the year. This includes work in advertising, TV, DVD and events. The awards also recognise achievement in the promotion of captioning for social inclusion. 

“The world of captioning can often be a minefield of negotiating, quality control, technological glitches and sometimes unhappy customers for media producers,” said Allayne Woodford, Project Manager at Media Access Australia.

“The Captioning Awards is one night of the year when parties from behind and in front of the screen can come together and celebrate their successes and can encourage producers to continue bringing their work to millions of viewers.”

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