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dc.contributor.authorEllis, Katie
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:53:19Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:53:19Z
dc.date.created2016-12-20T19:30:18Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationEllis, K. 2014. Digital television flexibility: A survey of Australians with disability. Media International Australia (150): pp. 96-105.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16016
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1329878X1415000120
dc.description.abstract

Flexibility for many viewers comes from digital technologies and their interaction with television broadcasting. Significantly, as television is switched to digital transmissions, viewers with disability have the potential to experience flexibility in the form of accessibility features such as audio descriptions, captions, lip-reading avatars, signing avatars, spoken subtitles and clean audio. This flexibility may in fact provide some people with access to television for the first time. This exploratory study reports results from an online survey of Australians with disabilities conducted during the final months of the simulcast period before analogue signals were switched off in 2013. While captioning emerged as the most desired accessibility feature, differences surfaced when the data were broken into specific impairment types. This article highlights the importance of digital flexibility specific to impairment type, and locates people with disability as a significant group to consider as more changes take place around digital television broadcasting via the NBN.

dc.publisherUniversity of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies & Art History
dc.titleDigital television flexibility: A survey of Australians with disability
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.number150
dcterms.source.startPage96
dcterms.source.endPage105
dcterms.source.issn1329-878X
dcterms.source.titleMedia International Australia
curtin.departmentDepartment of Internet Studies
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