Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Two more captioned cinemas
Hoyts has announced that Warringah and Mount Druitt cinemas will be equipped with CaptiView captioning system. This in addition to the five cinemas that became CaptiView enabled on 1 December 2011.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Brazil Film Festival 2011
Locations are Palace Norton Street and Chauvel cinema Paddington.
http://www.brazilfilmfestival.com.au/
Thursday, October 27, 2011
15th Japanese Film Festival
Anyway
The 15th Japanese Film Festival is on from 17 - 27 November in Sydney [and Melbourne 29 November to 6 December 2011]
website - http://15th.japanesefilmfestival.net/
location: Event Cinemas George St, in Sydney [map]
Monday, October 10, 2011
Why bother with captions?
The festival is on in Sydney in September, gone for this year but still available in other cities. Keep it in mind for 2012!
http://www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au/
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Friday, October 7, 2011
More captioned cinemas
Check it out!
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Two videos
The first a cochlear switch-on movie
And a quick one for a candidate for the Republican nominee, re-dubbed. I think it shows what deaf people experience every day. What do you think?
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Italian Film Festival, Sydney
15 September to 5 October 2011
http://www.italianfilmfestival.com.au for details
Why wait for captions on English language movies? What about the wealth from other cultures, subtitles already included!
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
75th Anniversary of Better Hearing Australia. Sydney Branch
Here's some pictures of the happy attendees.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
More Captions at Hoyts
Starting August 4 2011 these cinemas will be providing captioned sessions at these cinemas. Check the Your Local Cinema website for session times
Chatswood Westfield, Sydney – 1 screen
Chatswood Mandarin, Sydney – 2 screens
Warrawong on the NSW south coast – 1 screen
Belconnen, ACT - 2 screens
Woden, ACT – 2 screens
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Review of access to telecommunications by people with disability, older Australians and people experiencing illness
Here's a link, you can make a submission by 19 August 2011
[link]
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Captions on iView for iPad
Then Apple released the iPad, a tablet device that one can use to browse the web, check email, play games, just about anything you can do on a standard computer, with some limitations.
The ABC released the ABC app, which opened the doors for iPhone and iPad users. It was pretty good, but there were no captions.
Now, captions are available for the iPad version of iView and here's a few observations. Mostly they relate to the quality of the captioning rather than the iView app.
- The captions are a little small for my (JC) liking. It would be good if we could alter the size of the captions. This might not be possible if they are 'burnt-in' to the video file.
- Captions appear in a little grey panel, with white type. I think a darker background might be better.
- Like the captions on TV there is often a synchronization problem - the words a spoken but it might take a little while for the words to appear.
- There are often missed passages. This will occur if the captioned can't keep up with what's being said.
All in all I think the iView app is fantastic. I do hope that the ABC will include it in further developments to accommodate the hearing-impaired community. The developers are to be applauded and encouraged.
Media outlets generally need to improve the quality (and frequency, say to 100%) of the captions. The ABC is showing the way to Internet broadcasting.
Accessible Seinfeld
Now you can get Jerry Seinfeld's wisdom via a new website
http://accessibleseinfeld.com/
And Android users can download an app dedicated to the website as well
here
Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! They will be passed to the developer for improvement and/or encouragement.
Have a look!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Arlene Romoff
She has a blog
http://www.arleneromoff.com/
Have a look!
Friday, June 24, 2011
More Accessible Cinemas
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Event cinemas have announced that they are upgrading three cinemas to digital facilities, making them more accessible. The new facility should be available from 7 July 2011.
The cinemas will be CaptiView enabled and are located at
Parramatta, Maroochydore and George St, Sydney.
Session times will be available on the Accessible Cinema website
session times
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Accessible Cinema Advisory Group (ACAG) announcement
During the meeting, the cinema industry confirmed the roll-out of an additional 45 accessible cinema screens (closed captions using CaptivView and/or audio description) by the end of 2011. This will bring the total to 50 screens. Whilst this is less than the 73 screens expected for 2011 in the Cinema Access Implementation Plan (the Plan), ACAG have been assured that delivery of the final 2014 target of 242 accessible cinemas against the Plan is on track. The type of accessibility on offer at each cinema will be advised. For information on when new accessible cinema screens become available, please check Your Local Cinema website at www.yourlocalcinema.com.au.
For your information, you can view ACAG’s second Communiqué at http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/disability/progserv/govtint/Pages/CommuniqueACAGJune2011_attch_A.aspx. The Communiqué identifies the key achievements from the meeting.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Inquiry into Hearing Health in Australia
The report is available in PDF format and is broken into 8 chapters and 2 appendices.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Belvoir Street Theatre in Surry Hills, Sydney, is the latest venue to provide GoTheatrical!™ theatre captioning service
A captioned performance of ‘The Business’ is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 May at 8pm.
More info in their newsletter
Go Theatrical - http://www.theatrecaptioning.com.au/
Thursday, April 14, 2011
New Captioned Cinema at Top Ryde
A new cinema has come on to the captiView system.
Events cinema at Top Ryde, located within the new Top Ryde City shopping centre, is the first of the Events chain to adopt the technology.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
When in Melbourne
Hoyts Forest Hill website
Media Access Accessible Cinema site
Keep up the good work!!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Public Transport
- 439 goes along Gipps St [next street north of BHA Concord office], between the City and Mortlake, via Leichhardt
- 461 goes along Parramatta Road, between The Domain, City and Burwood
- MetroBus M41 travels from Marsfield to Hurstville, cross-country and meets up with various other transport links
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Need help voting
The Electoral Commission has set up a web page in which is contained links for those who need help when voting.
There's also a system called iVote and you need to meet certain criteria, vision or other physical impairment, and various others, and you'll need to register beforehand.
Have a look, use your vote!
Friday, February 18, 2011
How to Subscribe #2
Here are the little icons to look out for in your browser[s]
Safari | |
Firefox Windows | |
Firefox Macintosh | |
Internet Explorer [pull down from the pop-down menu for RSS feed selection] |
feed://bhasyd.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Sunday, February 6, 2011
CaptiView at Hoyts Broadway
There is a system in use there called CaptiView which allows you to see personal subtitles. The device is mounted temporarily in the drink holder in your armrest. During this introductory time they have a technician bring you the device when you take your seat. The screen is on a flexible arm and you position it so you can see the screen and the captions at the same time.
It works very well.
I can recommend this new system most highly. What we need is more session availability and more movies. I understand that this is underway.
Anyone else used it?
Let us know what you think - leave a comment!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
CICADA dates for 2011, Sydney
[map]
Social Functions are scheduled for
February 13, April 3, June 5, August 14 and October 30
and feature a BBQ, guest speakers and socialising with other implants and their families.
13 February - "How to harness today's technology to improve your hearing"
Get the most from your iPad/iPhone/iPod with Michael Harrison, teacher of the deaf
and Monica Bray [SCIC] give the low-down on AudioBooks
Join!
http://www.cicada.org.au/
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tinnitus is the result of the brain trying, but failing, to repair itself
Friday, January 14, 2011
QLD flood funds raising
By now you'll know there's a disaster underway, way up north.
Here's some links
You may wish to donate some money.
Queensland Govt fund - phone, internet banking, send a cheque or various banks [list on the page]
Givit - Donate goods via this site - Brisbane and SE QLD only so far
Latest QLD government info website
Personal captions at Broadway Hoyts
There is an article on the Media Access website outlining the procedures and reviews the experience.
have a look!
Link to Media Access article
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Sydney Festival, January 8 - 30 2011
This is our city in summer
Program guide [pdf]
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/uploads/file/SF2011_Brochure.pdf
YouTube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/sydneyfestival
Access page
http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2011/Plan-Your-Festival/Access/
Start the New Year
Lurnea's Onita Thornton, 95, is oldest surviving deaf student
Liverpool Leader
http://ht.ly/3ANF3
If she can, you can
Driving with the top down could make you deaf
Auto123.com
http://ht.ly/3ANI1
Solution - when in the Maserati [or Porsche, or Ferrari], wear your fluffy ear muffs. Problem Solved!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Music poll
Over at my other blog I've made a little poll about hearing impairment and music. Feel like spending 10 seconds and filling in the poll?
Your email address will be retained for no purpose other than to advise you of results, when there's enough.
Click here
http://ilsordo.blogspot.com/2011/01/loading.html
JC