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Media Access Australia (M.A.A.) is an Australian charitable organization that works to improve digital accessibility for people with disabilities. The organization also offers a university-accredited online degree called the Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility (P.C.W.A.), which is taught in six-week modules.

M.A.A. provides information about technological solutions, such as audio description and captioning, to make audio-visual media, including streaming services, TV, cinema, DVDs and new media, accessible to people with disabilities. M.A.A supports improvements in media access in Australia towards international best practice by identifying mainstream technological solutions and cost-effective ways to promote and implement them.

M.A.A. works with consumer organizations; Government and industry in Australia and internationally.

Background

Media Access Australia, originally known as the Australian Caption Center (A.C.C.), was co-founded by Adam Salzer and Alexandra Hynes in 1982. In 2005, A.C.C. sold its commercial operations, including captioning services, to Red Bee Media.

References

  1. Service SA – Services Archived 2009-05-14 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
  2. Red Bee Media Archived 2009-06-13 at the Wayback Machine

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