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July 2011
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08 July 2011 Victorian Government releases access guidelines for colour blindness
The Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development has developed guidelines to improve access to visual materials for people with colour...
07 July 2011 Khan Academy adds Universal Subtitles to online education videos
People who are Deaf and hearing impaired may now have access to over 2,400 education videos produced by the Khan Academy, after Universal Subtitles...
05 July 2011 WA Government announces WCAG implementation timelines
The State Government of Western Australia has formally announced that it will aim to achieve WCAG 2.0 ‘A’ or ‘AA’ compliance by the end of 2013...
04 July 2011 Facebook excludes Deaf and hearing impaired by not supporting captioning
The announcement that the Warner Bros. web series Aim High will be aired exclusively via Facebook video has sparked a new fight to get Facebook video...
04 July 2011 Top Five Web Accessibility Pitfalls from our W3C Representative Dr Scott Hollier
This month, our W3C representative Dr Scott Hollier draws inspiration from the plethora of accessibility misinformation to write about his Top Five...
01 July 2011 Hearing date set for JetBlue Accessibility Case
A date has been set for the hearing of the disability access case against JetBlue Airways, with the airway asking the magistrate to dismiss the case.
01 July 2011 Florida State University sued for inaccessible eLearning system
Florida State University is the latest US institution to be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to provide learning materials...
01 July 2011 US project to improve web access for low-income Deaf and hearing impaired
Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD), a US not-for-profit organisation promoting access for Deaf and hearing impaired Americans, has been...
June 2011
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30 June 2011 Blip.tv provides closed captions
The US-based Blip.tv, one of the leading platforms for original web series, launched a new media player this week which supports closed captions.
29 June 2011 UN releases report on international ICT accessibility
The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ICT), an arm of the United Nations, has released a report on...
29 June 2011 NV Access awarded Mozilla grant to improve NVDA
Mozilla has awarded NV Access an $80,000 grant to improve its free and open source screen reader for Windows, Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA).
24 June 2011 CSU cautions use of Google apps due to accessibility issues
A report by the Accessible Technology Initiative at California State University has cautioned US universities on campus-wide adoption of Google’s...
24 June 2011 YouTube’s auto-captions improve, but there’s a long way to go
Scientific American has published an article on the state of YouTube’s auto caption service, introduced in 2009, which uses speech recognition...
24 June 2011 New large print contacts app for the iPad now available
Ai Squared has released a new ‘large print’ contacts app for the iPad for users who have difficulty with the text size on the screen.
24 June 2011 Dr Hollier presents at Council on the Ageing WA Conference
Media Access Australia WA Manager Dr Scott Hollier will be presenting today on access to online media and digital technology at the Council on the...
23 June 2011 UK travel company websites fall short on basic accessibility
An investigation into the accessibility of the top ten UK travel company websites has shown that none of these websites met the most basic level of...
23 June 2011 Media Access Australia staff to judge accessibility compliance for Australian Web Awards
Media Access Australia staff members Dr Scott Hollier and Sarah Pulis will judge the accessibility compliance of candidate websites and mobile...
22 June 2011 W3C calls for review of WCAG supporting documents
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has announced a Call for Review of updates to two supporting documents for Web Content Accessibility...
22 June 2011 Accessibility a judging criteria for Australian Web Awards
The Australian Web Awards 2011 is now open for submissions from Australian websites or mobile applications that have been newly created or...
20 June 2011 Accessibility Summit brings accessibility experts live to a computer near you
The second annual Accessibility Summit conference will be held on 27 September, streaming leading web accessibility experts online to attendees...

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