Australian policy and legislation
Government issues audio description trial correction
The original report stated that the 13-week trial proposed for the second half of 2011 would involve the broadcast of 14 hours of programs with audio description per day. The statement explains that this this was a misprint, and should have been “14 hours per week”.
A copy of the corrected report is available on the DBCDE website.
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Convergence Review
In December 2010, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, the Hon Senator Stephen Conroy, officially launched the Convergence Review.
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iVote to enable blind and vision impaired people to cast secret vote online
Passed in Parliament in November 2010, the iVote website has been designed to be accessible to people who are blind and vision impaired, allowing them to independently cast a secret vote. The accessibility features of the iVote website include ARIA landmarks, clearly labelled form elements, easy page navigation and meaningful links.
Voters are eligible to use iVote if:
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