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Organisations receive Emmy awards for internet caption standards
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) were honoured at the 67th Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards held in Las Vegas on 8...
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Gogo agrees to in-flight captions
In-flight entertainment provider Gogo Vision has struck an agreement with the US National Association of the Deaf to provide access via closed captions.Gogo Vision is a personalised in-flight...
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Class action launched in the US demanding captioned lyrics
Nine deaf advocates and individuals have launched a class action against a number of Hollywood Studios, including Disney, Sony, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros and Universal Studios, for...
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Video advertisements on Facebook to be auto-captioned
Facebook will begin to roll out a new feature that will make auto-playing advertisements more accessible to people with a disability.Following the launch of auto-playing video advertisements, new...
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Accessibility in the cloud – benefits, issues and trends
As a new survey shows an increase in the use of the cloud in 2016, the impact of this on people with disabilities and impairments becomes ever more important. Media Access Australia has produced a...
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Microsoft reveals accessibility goals for Windows 10 and Office 365
Tech giant Microsoft has revealed its roadmap of accessibility features to be introduced in Windows 10 and Office 365 over the course of 2016. The announcement comes after a number of public statements...
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U.S. clarifies TV captioning responsibilities
In a new ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to improve captions by clarifying who bears the responsibility for their delivery and quality.The FCC has, until now, placed the...
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BBC researches caption user experience
Three researchers from the BBC have created a framework for understanding – and potentially improving – the UX (user experience) of people who use captions.In The Development of a Framework for...
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ACMA releases captioning standards report
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released the final report on the review it has been conducting of television captioning standards.Under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992,...
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Accessible media preview from CSUN
The annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (commonly known as CSUN) starts on 21 March in San Diego, California. This year there is significant coverage around...
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Using captions for children’s literacy in any language
Captions are not just essential for Deaf and hearing impaired people. Their power to assist literacy, especially in developing countries, has been demonstrated on a massive scale by organisations such...
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New tech developments give a glimpse of the future
Research into access technology has become quite advanced, with more sophisticated products that are attempting to help people with disabilities in real-life situations. Two projects from Microsoft...
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Australian TV networks swap caption suppliers
Some major changes have taken place in Australian television captioning this year, with Ericsson winning the contract to provide captions to the ABC, while Ai-Media will be the new caption provider for...
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TV in UK exceeds captioning and audio description quotas
Television channels in the UK continue to deliver access at much higher levels than the regulated quotas. All channels are covered by the access requirements and any exemptions are generally due to...
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Snapchat adds closed captioning support for Discover videos
Social messaging app Snapchat has added closed captioning support for videos shared within its Discover section, allowing major publishers to share accessible video content with broad communities of...
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U.K. Government fails to act on video-on-demand accessibility
The organisation Action on Hearing Loss has expressed disappointment at the U.K. Government’s failure to set targets or introduce legislation for the provision of access services (captions, signing and...
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