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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 03 August 2011 |
Ofcom reveals UK television’s spotless access record The UK's media and communications regulator, Ofcom, has not reported a breach of access requirements on UK television in over 15 months. |
| 02 August 2011 |
Hoyts announce five new accessible movie locations Hoyts has notified the Accessible Cinema Advisory Group that it is on target for the rollout of new captioned and audio described screens from this... |
| 02 August 2011 |
US universities lead the way on classroom captions Support for closed captions is sweeping US universities and colleges as educators catch on to the benefits of accessible tools for all students.... |
| 02 August 2011 |
International accessible art professionals to give free lectures in Adelaide This August, Adelaide will play host to the British audio describer, Willie Elliot, and artistic director, Daryl Beeton for a free program on... |
| 01 August 2011 |
UK project to help bring music to cochlear users Cochlear implants help those with severe to profound hearing loss perceive speech but the technology has difficulties communicating the complexities... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 29 July 2011 |
Ofcom proposes expanded UK telephone relay service Ofcom, the UK’s media and communications regulator, has released a Review of Relay Services, proposing a number of expansions to the current... |
| 29 July 2011 |
Shadow Minister for Disability shows support for captions in schools Shadow Minister for Disability, Carers and the Volunteer Sector, Senator Mitch Fifield showed his support for captions in education this week in a... |
| 28 July 2011 |
ANZ goMoney supports blind and vision impaired customers ANZ banking customers can now access the ANZ goMoney app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch using VoiceOver, Apple’s inbuilt screen reader... |
| 28 July 2011 |
W3C updates accessibility guidelines The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global regulatory body for the web, has recently updated a number of their working draft standards. A series... |
| 27 July 2011 |
Commentary: Getty-Google partnership misses the mark on accessibility The Getty Museum recently announced that it would be the first museum to collaborate with Google, and using Google’s image recognition application... |
| 26 July 2011 |
UK Festival Awards puts more focus on festival accessibility The UK Festival Awards is the annual awards for the contemporary music festival industry and the benchmark by which festival goers rate their... |
| 25 July 2011 |
First free practical guide to NVDA screen reader released Media Access Australia has released the first free training resource for the NVDA screen reader: a ‘wikispace’ that provides a step-by-step guide to... |
| 22 July 2011 |
Access to telecommunications review launched The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched an inquiry into access to telecommunications services which include... |
| 21 July 2011 |
US delays web access requirements The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has delayed the introduction of formal web access requirements for commercial and public organisations... |
| 21 July 2011 |
Australian university adopts Google Apps for Education with known accessibility issues Australia’s RMIT University may be excluding students with disabilities after all of its 74,000 student email accounts were moved to Google Apps for... |
| 20 July 2011 |
Student team wins Microsoft Imagine Cup for new and innovative assistive technology A team of students in the US has won second place in the Microsoft Imagine Cup for Note-Taker, an assistive technology that helps people who are... |
| 20 July 2011 |
YouTube expands automatic captioning to other languages YouTube, which introduced automatic captions for English language videos in 2009, has now expanded the service to Japanese videos. |
| 19 July 2011 |
Nominations for the Captioning Awards close soon Nominations for the Deafness Forum’s Captioning Awards close on 29 July. The awards present an opportunity to celebrate the steps media and others... |
| 18 July 2011 |
Cinemas change from open to closed captions A number of major cinema complexes have made the change from open captions to closed captions in recent weeks. This provides more opportunities to... |
| 18 July 2011 |
Low vision people often disregarded online An American academic has claimed that the web experience for people who are vision impaired is suffering because they are being mistakenly grouped... |