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MEDIA ACCESS NEWS
NZ announces TV audio description trial
Accessible radio developments in the US
US Senate passes comprehensive accessibility bill
Channel 4 announces 20% audio description, 100% captioning
UK regulator hedges on AD quota increase
Disney extends its access services in Florida theme parks
US Attorney General announces proposals for improved accessibility regulations
UK access company on the market
US electronics association to develop access standards
Access and audience development reports on Australian arts
Audio description for stadiums
MAA opens office in Western Australia
The Deafness Forum Captioning Awards 2010
ONLINE MEDIA
Blind Citizens Australia launches new accessible website
Accessible CAPTCHA solution released
Campaign to increase digitised books to 2 million
New Kindle has improved accessibility features
Study finds speech recognition software can create live captions for VoIP
Drupal CMS provides accessibility resources
First mobile application for captioning telephone calls
IDEAL Video Magnifier app for Android now available
Free accessible iPhone app turns documents into text
New community-based website for blind and vision impaired iOS users
New Apple patent makes accessing closed captions easier
Indian government creates US$35 tablet PC
Website development site offers huge range of captioned videos
Google improves Gmail accessibility
Federal government launches WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise
VIDEO ON DEMAND
YouTube identifies caption suppliers who are ‘YouTube Ready’
YouTube adds feature to view ‘transcript of captions’
FREE-TO-AIR TELEVISION
ACMA finds TCN Nine breached caption obligations
Multichannel Review legislation passed
SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION
ASTRA responds to Human Rights Commission questions
FOXTEL expands live captioning on Sky News and FOX Sports
EDUCATION
MAA’s Classroom Access Project enters second phase
New US National Education Technology Plan criticised by disability groups
School captioning solution wins New Inventors
Blackboard learning software receives NFB accessibility award
DVDs
DVD distributors, Deafness Forum and MAA meet to discuss captioning
Access on new release DVDs
Access on Blu-ray
CINEMA
Consumers hail accessible cinema expansion
Facebook group for captioned movie fans at Hoyts Carousel
Massachusetts becomes the USA’s most accessible state for cinema
Audio description and captioning in Australian cinemas
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