Media Access Australia provides information on media access issues to government consultations and responds when broadcasters apply to the government for exemptions from captioning regulations.
Below is a list of submissions made by Media Access Australia since 2008, arranged by which department or agency they were submitted to.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the primary international standards organisation for the World Wide Web, introduced the Web Access Initiative (WAI) to address accessibility issues faced by people with disabilities.
Here is Part 2 of Media Access Australia’s top ten predictions and wishes:
1. More audio description available in Australian cinemas.
With the government and major cinemas coming to an agreement to roll out captioning and audio description services in cinemas over the next four years, Ally Woodford, Media Access Australia’s Cinema, Arts and DVD Project Manager, says, “On my wish list is that audio description will become more common on Australian movies, through Screen Australia funding support for audio description of them.
