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More Captions Available on TVNZ OnDemand

We’re well pleased more captioned content will be available on TVNZ OnDemand from Monday 19 November!

19 Nov 2018

News: Captions Available on New Episodes of Shortland Street on TVNZ OnDemand

We're super excited to announce that captions will be available on TVNZ OnDemand for new episodes of Shortland Street from Sunday 16 September.

16 Sep 2018

Blog: Why is Accessibility a Good Investment?

Why should businesses, governments, educators, companies and not-for-profits make their content, products or services accessible?

28 Aug 2018

Blog: What exactly is Audio Description (AD)?

9 Aug 2014

Audio Description (AD) is a relatively new area of service for Able. While captioning has been available in NZ for some 30-odd years, AD only started up in 2011.
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News: Sunday political programmes now with captions

25 Jul 2014

On Sundays, the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community will now have greater access to political programming, with Q+A and the repeat of The Nation being captioned.
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News: The Voice Australia LIVE finale

18 Jul 2014

Able is excited to be offering captions for the live grand final of The Voice Australia on TV2 at 9.30pm on Monday 21st July 2014.
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Media release: captions for political programmes

11 Jul 2014

Captioning to give hard of hearing community greater access to political debate.
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News: 2014 FIFA World Cup captions

10 Jul 2014

Able is very excited to be offering captions for the live FIFA World Cup final on Monday 14th July, capping off a month of captioning the FIFA World Cup Highlights show, which has aired every day a football match has been played during the tournament.
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