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New online video service to have 100% captioning
While it is being developed in the UK, the service is intended to be available internationally. If it succeeds in launching, Films14 will drastically increase the amount of captioned content available online in Australia.
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ABC to improve app accessibility
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation app for iPhone and iPad is one of Australia’s most downloaded media and entertainment apps and acts as portal to content from across the ABC. Through it, users can read and watch the news, listen to over 25 radio stations, and watch selected catch-up TV.
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Accessible DVDs released in March 2013
Distributors 20th Century Fox, Accent, Eagle, Gryphon and Madman all had titles released internationally with either captions or subtitles that were not released in Region 4, a market which includes Australia, New Zealand, South America and Oceania.
Further still, both Disney and Icon released titles locally without audio description where this feature was available in international territories. Those movies were Now Is Good from Disney and Beasts of the Southern Wild from Icon.
The titles with both audio description and captions are:
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