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| 23 July 2012 |
Nine beats FOXTEL in captioned Olympic coverage The Nine network has confirmed that all of its coverage of the London Olympics, consisting of over 300 hours broadcast on Channel 9 and simulcast in... |
| 20 July 2012 |
Audio description trial dates announced The long-awaited trial of audio description on Australian television will commence on 5 August on ABC1, and run for 13 weeks between 5pm and midnight... |
| 19 July 2012 |
Introducing Access iQ: helping create a web without limits Access iQ is Media Access Australia's new initiative. Launched today, the website is a hub for anyone who wants to learn how to make websites and... |
| 17 July 2012 |
New US access standards for remotes and 3D TVs The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has just released five new standards for electronics equipment manufacturers, including one related to... |
| 17 July 2012 |
Australians with disabilities pay too much for IT The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has published a report outlining how Australians pay too much for technology and that... |
| 16 July 2012 |
Woolworths refuses to caption its ads Following an investigation by B&T magazine which found that many major Australian brands are not captioning their TV commercials, Coles has... |
| 13 July 2012 |
New invention bridges the signing gap A pair of gloves have been invented which translate sign language into synthetic speech. The project saw its developers, a team of students from... |
| 10 July 2012 |
Report on the accessible cinema rollout: January to June 2012 Following on from the successful 2011 rollout of captioned and audio described cinema locations under the Cinema Access Implementation Plan, the... |
| 09 July 2012 |
See "Ice Age 4" with open audio description A special screening of the movie Ice Age 4: Continental Drift with audio description played openly in the cinema for all patrons has been organised... |
| 06 July 2012 |
Captions added to Google+ Hangouts Google’s flagship social network, Google+, has made a breakthrough with the launch of Hangout Captions. The app will allow people who are Deaf or... |
| 05 July 2012 |
Accessibility you can bank on A bank in Switzerland, Credit Suisse, is calling itself “the barrier-free bank” as it launches its accessibility initiative for the fifth year... |
| 04 July 2012 |
Audio description now mandatory on US television As of 1 July, audio description is once again mandatory on television in the US, with the top four networks and top five cable TV channels obliged to... |
| 04 July 2012 |
The Other Film Festival returns for 2012 The biennial Other Film Festival has announced its return in 2012, showing films that are not only accessible, but tell stories of people with... |
| Date Published | News headline and description |
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| 28 June 2012 |
Captions included on ABC iView app The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has today launched the ABC iView app for iPhone, with caption functionality included. |
| 28 June 2012 |
Overstream website for captioning videos experiencing problems Free online captioning software Overstream is currently experiencing problems with its video streaming functions. Videos can be searched for but not... |
| 27 June 2012 |
Fleksy app improves texting for blind or vision impaired users A yet-to-be-released iOS iPhone app called Fleksy has stripped down the traditional touchscreen keyboard to make typing text more accessible to... |
| 26 June 2012 |
Open audio described movie in Melbourne Water for Elephants, the 2011 blockbuster movie starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, will screen with open audio description at Reading... |
| 25 June 2012 |
TV captioning bill passed in Senate This morning, a bill to amend the access provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 was passed by the Senate, and now only awaits royal assent... |
| 21 June 2012 |
New Zealand TV programs to be captioned for DVD Three of New Zealand’s largest media organisations have joined forces to ensure local content that is broadcast with captions will now also be... |
| 21 June 2012 |
US deafness organisation wins next stage of Netflix captioning suit The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) has had a significant win in its lawsuit against the online movie provider Netflix, with the District... |