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ITV Player in the UK now has captions

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The British commercial television network ITV yesterday announced that captions are available on its online catch-up service, the ITV Player.

The popular programs Emmerdale and Coronation Street are currently captioned on the service, and ITV has said that it intends to extend captioning to 70% of programs on it. Captions (which are called subtitles in the UK) are activated by pushing the ‘S’ button at the bottom of the screen. Programs on the ITV Player are only available to UK viewers.

The BBC launched captions on its catch-up service, the iPlayer, in 2008, while in Australia the ABC’s iView has had all prime-time programs captioned since March 2010.

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Charlestown the first Reading cinema with closed captioning

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Reading Cinemas at Charlestown has commenced closed captioned sessions.

Starting with two blockbuster movies in True Grit and The King's Speech, Reading Cinemas Charlestown, in the suburbs of Newcastle NSW, becomes the first Reading location to show closed capti

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Sarah Pulis wins scholarship to US Nonprofit Technology Conference

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Media Access Australia’s New Media Manager Sarah Pulis will soon be jetting off to Washington DC for the world’s largest nonprofit technology conference, after winning a scholarship for her commitment to access to technology and social media.

Sarah, who has been at Media Access Australia since the beginning of 2010, is one of three non-profit staff awarded Connecting Up Australia's scholarship, with entries submitted from all over Australia. Worth up to $5,000 each, the scholarships cover return airfares, a $500 contribution to meals and accommodation, and registration to the March conference, organised by the US Nonprofit Technology Network.

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iOS – iPad & iPhone

iOS is the operating system that runs on Apple mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Apple is generally credited with creating the first popular consumer accessible touch screen device with the inclusion of the VoiceOver screen reader in the iPhone 3GS.

Current versions of iOS contain a number of accessibility features closely related to the features found in OS X, the desktop and laptop Apple operating system. Features include:

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