Source: ABC TV

Three inventions to help disabled people are featured in a special edition of the ABC1 television program 'The New Inventors' screening on 10 March 2010. The program will feature Auslan interpreter Jemina Napier translating for Deaf viewers throughout the program, a first for The New Inventors.    Read more »

Source: Deaf TV www.deaftv.org.au

Deaf TV will be back on Monday 8th March 2010 at 6.30 p.m on Melbourne/Geelong Channel 31.  Adelaide Channel 31 will start Deaf TV on Monday 5th April 2010 at 6.30 p.m.

Deaf TV will be running 13 programs this season.   For more information about Deaf TV and to see previous episodes, please go to http://www.deaftv.org.au/

Source: Australian Human Rights Commission

Hoyts Corporation, Greater Union Organisation, Village Cinemas and Reading Cinemas has applied for a Temporary Exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) from complaints in relation to the provision of captions and audio description in their cinemas.    Read more »

Source: ITV Signed Stories

ITV Signed Stories is celebrating Australia Day (January 26 2010) with a special story Dingo Dog and the Billabong Storm.

The beautifully illustrated story of how the bush animals come together to teach the bullying Dingo a lesson, will be available in sign language, animation, text and sound for free on www.signedstories.com.    Read more »

Source: Video Relay Interpreting Service

Try the new Video Relay Interpreter service (VRI) using video technology and broadbandservices, now available in regional and rural areas across ictoria for both Auslan and spoken languages.   All VRI bookings for both Auslan and spoken languages are FREE up until 31st Dec 2009    Read more »

Google recently announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that uses their speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions.

It also works with Google Translation, so you can turn the captions into over 30 different languages.     Read more »

Source: Media Access Australia

An enthusiastic group of teachers of the deaf, education experts, disability advocates and suppliers gathered at Media Access Australia’s Sydney office on 26 October to launch the Accessible Education Database.

The first stage in a long-term project to achieve full captioning of classroom resources, MAA’s database provides an interactive resource for teachers, librarians, educators and parents... Read the full press release on Media Access Australia website.

Source: Australian Human Rights Commission

Hoyts Corporation, Greater Union Organisation, Village Cinemas and Reading Cinemas has applied for a Temporary Exemption under section 55 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) from complaints in relation to the provision of captions and audio description in their cinemas.    Read more »