While this is the first time that the ABC has made one of its online programs available with captions, it has now committed to providing captions on all prime time programs on its iView video streaming service by the end of March 2010.
Breaking Point can be viewed on the Four Corners website.
The conference will explore the impact of digital content, social media, cloud computing and new platforms on audiovisual production and distribution. In the access field, this could include developments such as CaptionTube, crowd sourcing for access, formatting content to provide access in new media, blurring of content boundaries and control of access.
The other two inventions featured are a 3-in-1 wheelchair and a Speed Demon off-road buggy that can be driven through the steering wheel alone.
To celebrate these important innovations, James O’ Loghlin will be joined by a special panel of experts living with a disability: paralympian Kurt Fearnley, filmmaker and presenter Sofya Gollan, and Federal Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes. The program will also feature Auslan interpreter Jemina Napier translating for Deaf viewers throughout the program, a first for The New Inventors.
The study, which was commissioned using European-based access experts, draws on a range of projects and solutions in development and operating in Europe, the US and Japan. Examples include: an animated talking face for lip reading users, a streaming solution for delivery of talking books, using broadband TV and mobile telephones for people with a reading disability, and a pedestrian navigation system for people with disabilities. A number of recommendations are included that feed into the Federal Government’s Media Access Review, National Broadband Network implementation and other initiativ
