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| 17 July 2013 |
New online video service to have 100% captioning Films14 is an online subscription service which is set to commence in 2014, and plans to have captioning on all of the movies and TV shows it makes... |
| 11 July 2013 |
Informing the next generation of media makers For the first time, Media Access Australia spoke at the Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) conference in Brisbane last week. The presentation, given... |
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| 28 June 2013 |
CineEurope - a roving report on cinema access developments Europe's largest cinema convention, CineEurope, is currently taking place in Barcelona, Spain, and our cinema manager, Ally Woodford, visited the... |
| 19 June 2013 |
Real-time captions to be delivered in NSW public schools Progress has been made towards equitable education in New South Wales public schools with captioning provider Ai-Media winning a competitive tender... |
| 12 June 2013 |
ABC found in breach of captioning rules The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found the ABC in breach of captioning rules due to poor captions on episodes of At the... |
| 05 June 2013 |
ACMA releases new Television Captioning Quality Standard The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today released its long awaited Television Captioning Quality Standard, which for the first... |
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| 20 May 2013 |
UK regulator seeks to improve live TV captioning The UK communications regulator Ofcom has announced proposals aimed at improving the quality of live captioning on television, including asking... |
| 17 May 2013 |
Captioned cinema moves forward with new technologies Two new accessible cinema developments in the USA and UK have movie fans getting excited about what might be the next steps in captioned movies. Both... |
| 10 May 2013 |
Ai-Media appoints new caption quality auditor The access provider Ai-Media has appointed Robert Scott as an independent auditor to ensure the quality of the captions it produces for broadcast,... |
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| 30 April 2013 |
Deaf advocate takes discrimination claim to the United Nations Michael Lockrey, a prominent figure in Australian disability advocacy, has petitioned the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with... |
| 19 April 2013 |
Accessible DVDs released in March 2013 At least 21 movies released on DVD in the last two months have been made accessible with closed captions and audio description. Of the 60 titles we... |
| 19 April 2013 |
Captioning on digital multichannels The Federal Government is due to introduce new regulations regarding captioning on digital multichannels like GO!, 7Two, Eleven and ABC2 which will... |
| 09 April 2013 |
Report on the accessibility of Electronic Program Guides Media Access Australia has released a report on electronic program guides (EPGs) and how television networks and content providers display access... |
| 08 April 2013 |
SBS falls short with DVD access As part of a series of home entertainment accessibility reports outside regular entertainment DVD titles, Media Access Australia has collated... |
| 04 April 2013 |
New Zealand to have independent captioning supplier Captioning and audio description services for New Zealand television, which are currently provided by the government-owned national broadcaster TVNZ... |
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| 28 March 2013 |
Television access in the UK: 2012 in review Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, has released its final report on the provision of access services on television for 2012. As in previous... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Results of UK caption quality survey released A survey on the quality of television captioning, conducted by Action on Hearing Loss, the largest deafness advocacy organisation in the UK, has... |
| 22 March 2013 |
Rear Window Captioning drops license fee One of the most established cinema closed caption systems, Rear Window Captioning (RWC), is going to be more cost effective for cinemas to install.... |
| 13 March 2013 |
Captions in the classroom: a hidden literacy tool Education manager and Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf, Anne McGrath, talks through key pieces of research which identify the link between captions and... |
| 06 March 2013 |
Canada first country to achieve 100% broadcast captioning Canada is already a world leader in television captioning with legislation mandating that all TV programs are broadcast with captions. Now, Canada’s... |