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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. |
| 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... |
| 06 June 2012 |
Canadian access company launches audio described TV guide Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has launched an online guide listing all programs available with audio description on Canadian TV channels. |
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| 30 May 2012 |
SKY NZ to provide more captions New Zealand subscription TV provider SKY has extended captioning to a further four channels – History, BBC Knowledge, MTV and TVNZ Heartland. This... |
| 28 May 2012 |
Apple registers patent for accessible TV features A patent registered by Apple earlier this month will make Apple TV more accessible by incorporating an audible menu. This will allow blind or vision... |
| 25 May 2012 |
Foxtel and Xbox 360 gesture towards accessibility Foxtel has teamed up with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to provide voice and gesture based commands on the Foxtel subscription TV service. By using... |
| 24 May 2012 |
How to get your free talking set-top box Blind or vision impaired people who receive the Disability Support Pension will now be given a free talking set-top box as part of the switchover to... |
| 24 May 2012 |
Access rules for UK broadcasters to be extended to international channels The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, is proposing a change of rules so that UK broadcasters whose services are intended for other European... |
| 16 May 2012 |
Outcry as Irish TV reduces captioning TV Access, a coalition of organisations in the disability and ageing sector, has strongly condemned new Access Rules released by the Broadcasting... |
| 08 May 2012 |
More captioning on pay TV An agreement reached between the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)... |
| 02 May 2012 |
Government releases draft changes to caption legislation Yesterday the Federal Government released a draft bill to amend the Broadcasting Services Act to include caption quotas and caption quality... |
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| 26 April 2012 |
New talking set top box on sale in Australia Hills Antenna and TV Systems has released a new digital set top box which features talking menus and program guides, making them accessible for the... |
| 17 April 2012 |
Government to provide free accessible set-top boxes Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, has announced that talking set-top boxes will be distributed... |
| 03 April 2012 |
TVs that talk – a first for the blind and vision impaired Panasonic has announced that it will release 50 television models into the UK and Irish markets during the fast half of this year with a new talking... |
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| 28 March 2012 |
UK TV exceeded access quotas throughout 2011 The UK communications regulator Ofcom has just released its final report on television access services in 2011. As in previous reports, it found that... |
| 16 March 2012 |
Government confirms national audio description trial for August The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has confirmed that the trial of audio description on the ABC will take place in... |
| 07 March 2012 |
New live television captioning system developed in UK A UK access company, Red Bee Media, has developed a new live captioning system, Subito, which uses speech recognition technology to align pre-... |
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| 22 February 2012 |
Television revealed for blind and vision impaired Australians The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has just announced that Australia’s first audio description trial will be... |
| 16 February 2012 |
Proposed new Irish access rules provoke fierce criticism Controversy has erupted in Ireland over proposed changes to television access regulation. In December 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (... |
| 03 February 2012 |
SKY New Zealand launches captions On 1 February, New Zealand’s main subscription TV provider, SKY Television, introduced closed captioning on 13 of its channels: Animal Planet, Disney... |