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A pat on the back for the UK cinema industry
Monday, 18 August 2008 02:22
The United Kingdom’s cinema industry leads the way in access through the availability of captioning and audio description. Phil Clapp, CEO of the UK’s Cinema Exhibitors’ Association, has drawn attention to the short but successful journey the UK has taken so far, in an article in leading film magazine, ‘Cinema Business’.
Vision Australia appoints audio description manager
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:32
John Simpson has been appointed as the National Manager Audio Description for Vision Australia. John is well known to many people working in the area of audio description, including his ground breaking 1999 report on audio description in Australia “When a Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures”. This was the foundation for the introduction of AD into Australia. A copy of this report can be seen on the Blind Citizens Australia website.
John’s role will be to further develop live AD services in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, conduct consumer awareness programs (including a joint outreach program with MAA), formalise AD standards and develop an advocacy program looking at television, cinema and DVDs.
American education access program releases training video
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 23:09
The US national education access program, the Described and Captioned Media Program, now has a training video on its website aimed at explaining the needs of deaf and blind students when watching audio visual programs in the classroom. Naturally the video has both caption and audio description options.
To view the video visit the DCMP website.
Tune into 3RPH Vision Australia Radio this Sunday August 17
Tuesday, 12 August 2008 01:13
Tune in this Sunday 10am on a ‘Way of Life’ on Vision Australia Radio 3RPH to hear Ally Woodford, Project Manager for Media Access Australia, talking about the latest DVD titles released with audio description.
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