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Marlee Matlin's campaign yields in-flight captioning

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A high profile campaign by Deaf Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin has led to US airline Continental confirming that it will provide closed captioning on its LiveTV service from the first half of 2011. 

Continental joins a handful of airlines around the world that offer captioning on in-flight entertainment, including Qantas which also has a daily captioned news service.

For more information, see the Flightglobal website.

 

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Ofcom reports on accessibility of UK electronic program guides

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Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has published a report detailing the access features available on electronic program guides (EPGs) for subscription and free-to-air television services, and plans for improvements.

Overall, the subscription services, and particularly Sky, are leading the way in making it easy for viewers to identify programs which have captions or audio description (AD) and switch these features on. On the Sky EPG, for example, programs with captions or AD are in different colours, and the services are activated by pushing the ‘Help’ button on the remote. In addition to this, Sky viewers who are flicking through channels will hear a ‘beep’ when they come to a program with AD, and there is a dedicated channel which gives a spoken list of all channels.

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American access organisation conducts caption quality survey

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The WGBH Access Center is conducting an online survey about caption errors in live news broadcasts.

The Caption Accuracy Metrics Survey, which takes 15-20 minutes to fill out and is anonymous, gives screen shots from news broadcasts with caption errors.

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Ai-Media acquires stenocaptioning company

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Australian access supplier Ai-Media today announced that it has expanded its captioning resources by acquiring the specialist service provider RipperReporters, and appointed its founder, Denise Lamont, as Head of Ai-Media Stenocaptioning.

“Demand for stenocaptioning is increasing as multi-channel television broadcasting expands and existing channels increase captioning levels,” said Ai-Media CEO Tony Abrahams, who is also seeking to recruit more stenocaptioners. The company has positions available at its headquarters in North Ryde, Sydney, as well as opportunities to work from home.

For more information, see the Ai-Media website.

 

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