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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 15 April 2010 |
Universal Subtitles project brings volunteers together to caption online video A new project titled Universal Subtitles has been launched to provide a Wikipedia-like centralised resource to make it easy for volunteers to... |
| 13 April 2010 |
Adobe Creative Suite 5 updates Dreamweaver accessibility Adobe released Adobe Creative Suite 5 today and with it comes a new version of Adobe Dreamweaver, CS5, that includes new features to assist with... |
| 13 April 2010 |
The new Opera Mini iPhone app disappoints on accessibility It is with great disappointment that upon downloading the fastest web browser for the iPhone, the highly anticipated Opera Mini, we find that neither... |
| 13 April 2010 |
Microsoft release Visual Studio 2010 RTM with improved access features Microsoft has released to manufacturer (RTM) a new version of their flagship development software suite Visual Studio 2010. The new product contains... |
| 09 April 2010 |
Media Access Australia reviews the access features of the new Apple iPad The Apple iPad is the most talked about new media device launched recently. It seems that everyone wants one, including current owners of the quite... |
| 06 April 2010 |
iPad US release sparks discussion on accessibility features The Apple iPad has now been released in the US, and a CNET hands-on review, which looks at its accessibility features, has been published online. |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 31 March 2010 |
ABC's iView now has captions From today, all primetime ABC1 and ABC2 programs available on the iView player can be watched with captions. The captions are in a very readable font... |
| 29 March 2010 |
Adobe plans major upgrades to accessibility support in Flash Player Adobe has announced that future upgrades to accessibility support in Adobe Flash Player will enhance accessibility across the three major operating... |
| 29 March 2010 |
Captions commence on ABC's iView player From Tuesday 30 March, all ABC1 and ABC2 programs available via the ABC’s iView player will have captions. |
| 29 March 2010 |
Blackboard and NFB improve access to popular education software Blackboard Learn, an online learning platform used by tertiary institutions in Australia, has recently undergone an accessibility facelift due to the... |
| 19 March 2010 |
Apple confirms VoiceOver will dictate e-books Apple has confirmed that VoiceOver, an integrated accessibility tool that uses text-to-speech technology to help vision impaired users use the iPad,... |
| 15 March 2010 |
Mozilla and PCF announce the 'Collaborative Subtitling Design Challenge' Mozilla Labs, creator of the popular Firefox web browser, and the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) have announced the ‘Collaborative Subtitling... |
| 12 March 2010 |
Microsoft implements Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 for upcoming SharePoint 2010 release In a recent blog post on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, Tim McConnell, Program Manager on the SharePoint Foundation team, reaffirmed Microsoft’s... |
| 11 March 2010 |
FCC Chair outlines disability approaches The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hosted an event in Washington DC on 10 March 2010 covering the issue of broadband access for people... |
| 11 March 2010 |
IBM supports research to make mobile devices more accessible IBM, in collaboration with India's National Institute of Design and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, is... |
| 09 March 2010 |
Korean government actively implements accessibility guidelines HiSoftware Inc., a provider of web content and social media compliance solutions, and Korean distributor Trust Line Information and Communications Co... |
| 08 March 2010 |
US panel to review how broadband will work for disabilities The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is convening a panel to ensure that people with disabilities share fully in the benefits of broadband... |
| 05 March 2010 |
Google opens auto-captions up to other video providers Google have built on their auto-caption feature in YouTube by allowing other video providers to use the technology. |
| 05 March 2010 |
New cinema access system moves to development phase SightCine, a Los Angeles based start-up company, has secured development funding to create a prototype of its caption glasses concept. The idea is... |
| 01 March 2010 |
Are news websites accessible? Have your say Continuing last month’s theme, the Australian Web Access Review (AWARe) will focus on the accessibility of news websites in March. Three popular news... |