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| 11 November 2011 |
Carousel Hoyts announces switch-off date for open captioned movies Following on from yesterday’s announcement of Village Cinemas’ Jam Factory location in Melbourne ending its open captioned sessions, Hoyts Cinemas... |
| 11 November 2011 |
New organisation to make online video more accessible for blind and vision impaired people The Video Description Research and Development Center (VDRCD) is a new organisation funded by the US Department of Education which will investigate... |
| 10 November 2011 |
Village Jam Factory announces switch-off date for open captioned movies South Yarra cinema Village Jam Factory has announced that its last open captioned session will be on Monday 14 November. |
| 08 November 2011 |
Sydney Festival provides captioned and audio described performances Sydney siders will have the chance to see open captioned and audio described performances as part of the annual Sydney Festival, held from 7-29... |
| 07 November 2011 |
Access All Areas Film Festival launches 2011 program The annual Access All Areas Film Festival commences its accessible movie screenings this month with three tour programs designed to attract a range... |
| 04 November 2011 |
Government health information made more accessible The Senior Executive of The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Alison Verhoeven, has spoken at the recent Govt. 2.0 Conference at the... |
| 03 November 2011 |
Australian cinema loses an accessible cinema pioneer The staff at Media Access Australia were saddened to learn today of the death of Mark Sarfaty, the CEO of the Independent Cinemas Association of... |
| 02 November 2011 |
US cinema chain installs closed caption technology in all its locations Midwest US cinema chain Marcus Theatres has announced its completion of digital cinema installation, including CaptiView to show closed captioned... |
| 01 November 2011 |
Twitter used to police television caption quality The Northern NSW TV station, NBN, has set up a Twitter account which allows viewers to alert the station to captioning problems. This is the first... |
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| 28 October 2011 |
NZ's most loved drama made accessible for blind and vision impaired fans The most watched drama on New Zealand television will be audio described from next week. The announcement shows just how far ahead our neighbours are... |
| 26 October 2011 |
Access to Adelaide library increased for people who are blind and vision impaired Onkaparinga City Council has been successful in their bid for 15 DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) digital playback devices under the... |
| 25 October 2011 |
The Captioning Studio announces new theatre project for kids GoTheatrical! Kids is a new project that aims to increase access to children’s theatre performances in Australia through captions. |
| 21 October 2011 |
Milestone in America’s fight for television captioning The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has overturned a major category of “automatic” exemptions from its television captioning regulations. The... |
| 19 October 2011 |
Access conference calls for papers The Roundtable on Print Disability, hosted by the Western Australian Association for the Blind, is calling for papers for its April 2012 conference... |
| 17 October 2011 |
First chapter of guide to creating accessible digital media released Our counterparts, Media Access Canada, are releasing a guide to creating accessible digital media. The project, of which Media Access Australia is a... |
| 14 October 2011 |
New service provides live captions for ABC News24 online tveeder.com is a new service which provides live captions on ABC News24 online. Powered through the tumblr.com blogging platform, tveeder.com... |
| 11 October 2011 |
TV station found in breach of license due to caption failure The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that Nine Network affiliate NBN failed to show the TV Week Logie Awards with... |
| 06 October 2011 |
UK TV services continue to exceed access requirements Ofcom, the UK media and communications regulator, has published data on access services provided on television in the first half of 2011, revealing... |
| 05 October 2011 |
New iPhone release: a summary of accessibility improvements Apple CEO Tim Cook announced iPhone 4S today – but what impact does the announcement have on accessibility for people with disabilities? |
| 05 October 2011 |
Siri adds another dimension to iPhone accessibility Apple has released a new version of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, with enhanced accessibility features. Perhaps the most important is a new voice recognition... |