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- Report shows British TV channels are exceeding access requirements
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... reports giving the percentage of programs which have captions (called ‘subtitles’ in the UK), signing and audio description. In cases where a broadcaster has ...
22 Apr 2015 - 3:35pm
- Don’t make consumers the TV access police
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... approach to reforming captioning regulation is going too far in shifting responsibility towards consumers. One of the ... just want to turn on the television and watch programs with captions. They don’t want to have one part of their brain focused on ...
30 Jan 2015 - 3:59pm
- Ofcom releases first access report for 2014
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... is trying to end similar reporting requirements which are in place for Australian broadcasters. Ofcom requires ... reports giving the percentage of programs which have captions (called ‘subtitles’ in the UK), signing and audio description. In ...
26 Nov 2014 - 1:46pm
- Consumers condemn proposed changes to captioning regulations
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... change the rules governing captioning which were introduced in Parliament last week as part of its Repeal Red Tape campaign. ... measurement and regulation of caption quality. “Captions are the only way Deaf or hearing impaired Australians can access ...
5 Nov 2014 - 5:04pm
- American theatre takes audio description to a new level
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Arena Stage in Washington DC has partnered with the American Council of the Blind to expand ... it was the first American theatre to offer audio description in 1981. Arena Stage regularly runs accessible theatre sessions , offering both open captions for the Deaf and hearing impaired and audio description. Some ...
3 Nov 2014 - 1:13pm
- On-site training
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... to implement accessible web content, documents, templates, captions and more with our customised training services. Learn more about ...
30 Oct 2014 - 2:37pm
- Our heritage
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... organisation co-founded by Adam Salzer and Alexandra Hynes in 1982. The Centre aimed to promote and produce captioning for Deaf or hearing impaired Australians. At the Centre’s inception, captions were non-existent, however, over its life the organisation grew to ...
9 Oct 2014 - 9:29am
- Repealing captioning red tape: Caption quotas on subscription TV
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In the second part of our series on red tape repeal, we look at the issue of ... television, and the importance for consumers of knowing in advance how much will be captioned on individual channels. ... a certain number of channels in each genre required to have captions. Under these rules, from 1 July 2014, Foxtel has to caption 5% ...
3 Oct 2014 - 11:54am
- Captioned World Cup
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... Local coverage of the world’s largest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup starting in Brazil on 12 June (13 June ... matches are repeated later in the day, they will appear with captions. The captioned coverage also includes two feature programs, The Full ...
7 Jul 2014 - 1:22pm
- The digital accessible cinema chain: Part 1 – The overall picture and stakeholders
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In this three-part series, Media Access Australia project manager Ally Woodford looks at the stakeholders and roles they play in making movies accessible. The path a movie takes from its ... point that accessibility features of audio description and captions come into play, with the distributor being responsible for these ...
3 Jun 2014 - 9:27am