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| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 11 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #7 – We launch Access iQ There is an international push for web professionals to incorporate the needs of people with a disability into their practice. Media Access Australia... |
| 10 December 2012 |
Australian cinemas win Human Rights Award Australia’s four major cinema chains, Hoyts, Village, Event/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle and Reading, have won the 2012 Human Rights Award... |
| 10 December 2012 |
Access to social media can save lives When Hurricane Sandy bore down on the USA’s east coast, people turned to social media such as Twitter for the latest information. Sadly, due to the... |
| 10 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 12 #6 – changes to the Broadcasting Services Act An issue close to home for many of our readers is the quality and availability of captions on free-to-air and subscription TV. Good news arrived in... |
| 07 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #5 - teachers championing captions for all students Our annual CAP THAT! campaign asking teachers nationwide to turn on captions for literacy and inclusion for all students this year recruited almost... |
| 07 December 2012 |
Media Access Australia contributes to the NDIS Media Access Australia will be creating a Providers Accessibility Guide as part of a suite of projects announced by the Australian Government this... |
| 06 December 2012 |
Partnership to provide training for deafblind Telstra and non-profit organisation Able Australia have joined together in a program to help increase access to technology for Australians who are... |
| 06 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #4 – captions come to SBS online In July, SBS became the second Australian television network to offer captions on its catch-up service. |
| 05 December 2012 |
ACMA releases draft television captioning standard The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a draft of the new standard covering caption quality on free-to-air and... |
| 05 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #3 – the National Transition Strategy The Australian Government should have made significant progress towards making each of its websites accessible in 2012 as a result of the Web... |
| 04 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #2 – access to social media As social media continues to dominate what people do online, a new digital divide is opening up between those who use social media and those excluded... |
| 03 December 2012 |
Sydney Opera House introduces captioned online videos As part of the 3 December celebration of International Day of People with Disabilities, Sydney Opera House has published the first four of 31 closed... |
| 03 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #1 – the audio description trial As 2012 winds to a close, we take a look at the twelve biggest events impacting on access to media for people with a disability. Possibly the biggest... |
| 03 December 2012 |
Access achievements honoured at National Disability Awards Individuals and organisations committed to improving access to media foe people with disability were honoured at the National Disability Awards,... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 30 November 2012 |
App increases mobility for blind in Dublin A navigation app for Apple iOS devices called Walk Dublin will help to increase the mobility of blind and vision impaired users by providing walking... |
| 30 November 2012 |
European languages added to YouTube’s auto-captioning YouTube has this week announced automatic captions will now be available in another six languages across the video sharing network. YouTube has added... |
| 30 November 2012 |
Accessibility review: Microsoft Surface tablet Microsoft's Surface tablet has promised to deliver the best of both worlds: an easy-to-use tablet for games and entertainment but also a serious... |
| 30 November 2012 |
sociABILITY translated into Hungarian Our sociABILITY: Social media for people with a disability resource has been made available to people in Hungary through the Australian Embassy’s... |
| 28 November 2012 |
Accessible DVD releases for November 2012 There have been 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months with closed captions and audio description. Of the 69 titles we researched, 53 were... |
| 27 November 2012 |
Highlights of the Languages and the Media conference The Languages and the Media conference was held in Berlin last week. This is the premier access conference in the world and Media Access Australia’s... |