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| 12 August 2015 |
Making access work in the New World Access to media through audio description and captioning is well established through most of Europe, North America and the English-speaking world.... |
| 10 August 2015 |
U.S. Government makes captions compulsory in airports The Department of Transport has issued a ruling which will make it compulsory to turn on captions on all televisions and audio-visual displays in... |
| 06 August 2015 |
BBC paper looks at the future of online captioning As people increasingly watch TV programs online, the opportunity arises for captions to be made more responsive to the needs of individual users. A... |
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| 24 July 2015 |
Ofcom consults on accessibility of on-screen TV guides The UK communications regulator Ofcom has issued a consultation paper outlining changes it is proposing to make electronic program guides (EPGs) more... |
| 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... |
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| 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... |
| 24 June 2015 |
Egypt audio describes its first feature film On 11 June 2015, the 1963 epic drama Al Nasser Saladin became the first Egyptian feature film to be screened with audio description for blind and... |
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| 21 November 2014 |
Access 2020 predicting the future – five experts, 20 ideas A highlight of the recent the Languages and the Media Conference in Berlin was a panel presentation speculating about what access might look like in... |
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| 30 October 2014 |
Previewing Access 2020 – can we predict the future? Media Access Australia CEO Alex Varley will be hosting a panel discussion on the future of access with four international access experts at the... |
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| 02 May 2014 |
Naughty behaviour from Canadian porn channel The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has warned Channel Zero, a Toronto-based company that provides three... |
| 01 May 2014 |
UK media regulator releases first caption quality report On October 2013, the UK communications regulator Ofcom announced that it would be requiring broadcasters to measure and report on the quality of... |
| 01 May 2014 |
Captioning to increase in the Netherlands The Dutch culture ministry is introducing new requirements for closed captioning on television, which will now include the commercial television... |
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| 30 April 2014 |
US government agency sued for inaccessibility An accessibility law suit has been brought against the United States General Services Administration (GSA) alleging that its website, SAM.gov, is... |
| 23 April 2014 |
Australia urged to ease copyright restrictions on accessible books On World Book Day, the Australian Government has been called on to ease the copyright restrictions which reduce the number of books that are... |
| 17 April 2014 |
University entrance now possible for blind students in China Thanks to a change in regulation, blind and vision impaired students in China will be given access to mainstream higher education. |
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| 25 March 2014 |
Measuring caption quality: our white paper Media Access Australia today released a white paper entitled Caption quality: International approaches to standards and measurement. It focuses on... |
| 24 March 2014 |
Captioning campaign launched in New Zealand The National Foundation for the Deaf has launched a campaign, Caption It!, calling for increased levels of captioning on New Zealand television. |
| 12 March 2014 |
European Union legislates for web accessibility The European Parliament has passed a law to improve the accessibility of information on government websites in European Union member countries. This... |