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The screening will be at 9:30pm and take place in the complex’s VMax cinema which provides bigger seats and a larger screen.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (rated M) stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a special agent who, along with his team has been wrongfully accused of bombing the Kremlin. He and his team are forced to go rogue to clear their names and prevent another devastating attack. 

In the ‘platform preview’ of Internet Explorer 10 that is currently available to developers, Microsoft has introduced support for two captioning formats, TTML and WebVTT <track>. This feature adds to the already present support for HTML5 <video> playback which supports both the industry standa4rds H.264 format and the newer WebM format.

The cinema expects to have the installation of digital access equipment completed by 15 December. To ensure a continued program of accessible movies, management has agreed to screen another week of one of the biggest movies of 2011. Screening times for Twilight: New Dawn Part One can be found on the Event Cinema website.

As previously reported, Hoyts locations in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide have upgraded to enable closed captioned sessions through CaptiView technology. The chain has added Mt Druitt in Western Sydney and Warringah on the North Shore to its list of locations which cater to Deaf and hearing impaired patrons.

In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald Film Victoria CEO, Jenni Tosi, said the investment fund will contribute to “any costs the developer incurs as part of their accessibility efforts, which may include technology, testing or accessibility consultants.”  Film Victoria provides up to $100,000 or 50 per cent of the project budget for games developed in the state.

The conference brings together a range of professionals across information technology, with the increased numbers showing the shift, particularly in government and finance, towards considering the needs of people with a disability in web design and development.

Patrons must provide identification as security before being loaned the equipment necessary to see a movie with audio description or closed captions. Traditionally, a form of identification includes a credit card, driver’s licence or Medicare card, but blind consumer groups represented on the Accessible Cinema Advisory Group successfully petitioned for the acceptance of the BCA card.

The eAccessibility Forum is a coalition made up of government, industry and voluntary bodies, working to ensure people who are disabled in the UK have equal access to information and technology. Launched by the UK Minister for Communications, Ed Vaizey, the website is part of the eAccessibility Forum’s web accessibility initiative and will inform the eAccessibility Action Plan.

Netflix is a hugely popular service which accounts for up to a quarter of all Internet traffic in the US, but according the NAD’s suit, as of June 2011 only 5% of the ‘Watch Instantly’ titles had closed captions.

Raising The Floor is dedicated to making the internet accessible to all people, regardless of their abilities. Participants and organisations that are part of Raising The Floor engage in commercial, academic, voluntary and governmental activities towards their cause.