As reported in USA Today, National Association of the Deaf’s policy counsel, Andrew Phillips, believes that American domestic airlines provide an inferior service to international counterparts.
Using the Acce-Play system, captions can either be open or closed, depending on the cinema’s preference. The open captions can be projected onto a 50 centimetre wide, 5 metre long screen under the main cinema screen. Closed captions can be shown either on a small personal screen attached to the viewer’s seat or shown on a set of interactive glasses.
Audio description, an extra audio track for blind and vision impaired viewers, is sent to wireless headphones as usual.
Mada is a not-for-profit organisation that shares many values and roles with Media Access Australia. Mada works directly with people with disabilities and focuses on developing resources and assistive technologies in the Arabic language. An early project was translating our sociABILITY: social media for people with disability guide into Arabic. Mada was established by the Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology in 2010 and has additional
The UK system splits the broadcasters into three levels, all based on their audience share. The biggest category is Level 1 broadcasters, which includes the main free-to-air channels such BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5 and the main subscription channels from Sky.
