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| 07 January 2013 |
Festival season made accessible through audio description and captions This year’s Sydney and Perth festivals will provide audio description and open captions on a range of performances for patrons who are blind, vision... |
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| 21 December 2012 |
Ofcom extends access requirements to programs made for Europe The British communications regulator, Ofcom, has decided to extend the access requirements it places on UK broadcasters to channels providing... |
| 20 December 2012 |
Boxing Day blockbusters: sessions with captions and audio description Two of 2012’s most anticipated movie releases, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Les Miserables will both be released to cinemas with audio... |
| 19 December 2012 |
Assistive Android apps recognised The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards were held yesterday in Belgium to celebrate innovative apps for Android smartphones designed to... |
| 17 December 2012 |
New initiative promotes technology designed for everybody A major initiative recently launched in London is raising awareness of the need for technology design that includes people with a disability. |
| 13 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #9 – the cinema access revolution The end of the year marks the halfway point of Australia’s world-leading Cinema Access Implementation Plan. The strategy is seeing access technology... |
| 12 December 2012 |
Accessibility added to Kindle Fire as blind group plans protest Amazon has announced it will add accessibility features to its Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets, increasing access to content on the tablets... |
| 11 December 2012 |
Can machines make audio description easier? The question of whether automated tools help or hinder the production of access services, such as audio description, was a much discussed topic at... |
| 06 December 2012 |
Partnership to provide training for deafblind Telstra and non-profit organisation Able Australia have joined together in a program to help increase access to technology for Australians who are... |
| 04 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #2 – access to social media As social media continues to dominate what people do online, a new digital divide is opening up between those who use social media and those excluded... |
| 03 December 2012 |
Top 12 of 2012 #1 – the audio description trial As 2012 winds to a close, we take a look at the twelve biggest events impacting on access to media for people with a disability. Possibly the biggest... |
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| 30 November 2012 |
Accessibility review: Microsoft Surface tablet Microsoft's Surface tablet has promised to deliver the best of both worlds: an easy-to-use tablet for games and entertainment but also a serious... |
| 28 November 2012 |
Accessible DVD releases for November 2012 There have been 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months with closed captions and audio description. Of the 69 titles we researched, 53 were... |
| 27 November 2012 |
Highlights of the Languages and the Media conference The Languages and the Media conference was held in Berlin last week. This is the premier access conference in the world and Media Access Australia’s... |
| 22 November 2012 |
Greens Senators support audio description Senator Scott Ludlam, Greens spokesperson for communications, and Senator Rachel Siewert, Greens spokesperson for disability, have urged the... |
| 15 November 2012 |
We cover the world’s largest access conference Hosted in Berlin every two years, the Languages and the Media conference brings together media access experts from around the world. Our CEO, Alex... |
| 12 November 2012 |
NVDA screen reader now recognises long description Free screen reader for Windows, NVDA, has been updated to recognise 'longdesc', an attribute used by web developers to describe the data that is... |
| 06 November 2012 |
Audio description trial hailed a great success The trial of audio description on Australian television ended Sunday night on ABC1, with the Australian drama Dangerous Remedy being the last program... |
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| 30 October 2012 |
Feature: Aussie TV finds its voice As the trial of audio description on ABC1 draws to a close, we met with the talented captioners turned describers tasked with finding a voice fitting... |
| 25 October 2012 |
Audio description comes to New Zealand subscription TV The audio description service which has been provided on the free-to-air channels TV One and TV2 since 2011 will now be available to people who watch... |