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| 24 July 2015 |
Real-time captioning glasses premiere at French arts festival Augmented reality (AR) glasses which project real-time, customisable captions and surtitles for viewers have debuted at the Avignon Festival in... |
| 22 July 2015 |
Five key captioning roles for specialist educators Specialist education roles, such as Itinerant or Supporting Teachers of the Deaf, have a strategic and practical role in promoting the use of... |
| 21 July 2015 |
Academic calls for new audio description policy Dr Katie Ellis, senior research fellow in the Department of Internet Studies at Curtin University, is calling for a new policy on audio description... |
| 20 July 2015 |
Five tips to make the web work better in your language In late May, Dr Scott Hollier travelled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to teach a web accessibility course to 22 students. As part of the assignment work,... |
| 16 July 2015 |
UK channels breach rules by not providing access in other countries The UK communications regulator Ofcom has found that a number of UK-based channels owned by AXN and MTG breached access regulations by not providing... |
| 16 July 2015 |
Choosing captioned options is an essential first step In many subjects, students (and teachers) have a choice about which texts or resources to study. For students who use captions, it makes sense to... |
| 15 July 2015 |
Using captions to teach skills and concepts Access and opportunity combine with the use of captioned video in the classroom to provide necessary context, as well enduring information, after the... |
| 13 July 2015 |
Study will review disabled consumer experiences with video on demand Curtin University academic Katie Ellis will investigate disabled consumer experiences of subscription video-on-demand (VOD) services in Australia in... |
| 13 July 2015 |
Captioned Discovery Kids helps primary children learn Discovery Kids is Australia’s only dedicated educational channel for primary-school aged children (5-12) and a sponsor of Media Access Australia's... |
| 01 July 2015 |
iTunes to remove content that isn’t captioned 1 July 2015 is the deadline in the United States for all online video content to have captions if it was previously captioned for broadcast on... |
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| 30 June 2015 |
Accessible Live Events call for papers The University of Antwerp is hosting a special international symposium on Accessible Live Events on 29 April 2016 and is seeking proposals for papers... |
| 26 June 2015 |
UK Labour MP supports VOD access campaign Labour MP Lillian Greenwood has submitted a private member’s bill to the House of Commons in support of Subtitle It!, a campaign to improve the... |
| 25 June 2015 |
UK regulator releases access requirements for 2016 The UK communications regulator Ofcom has released its list of TV channels which will be required to provide access services – captioning, audio... |
| 18 June 2015 |
Government announces review of the ACMA The Department of Communications is undertaking a comprehensive review of Australia’s communications regulator, the Australian Communications and... |
| 17 June 2015 |
Accessible trailers help you decide Many movies are available with captions and/or audio description at cinemas, on DVD and some video-on-demand (VOD) services. But how do you decide... |
| 16 June 2015 |
Captioning helps ASD students One of the identified audiences for Media Access Australia’s CAP THAT! campaign is students with diverse learning needs. This includes students who... |
| 09 June 2015 |
Captions aid literacy in the classroom Worldwide studies have identified that captions can play a vital role in improving literacy levels of students. Improving reading skills is... |
| 09 June 2015 |
UK disability advocates release roadmap for VOD accessibility The accessibility of video-on-demand (VOD) services is a hot topic in Australia, the UK and other countries at the moment. There have been calls for... |
| 05 June 2015 |
ACMA releases caption compliance reports for 2013-2014 The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released the annual captioning compliance reports for free-to-air and subscription... |
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| 26 May 2015 |
UK regulator releases caption quality report The UK communications regulator Ofcom has released the third of four planned reports on the quality of live captioning on television. |