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Game-changing Service for Disability Telecommunication Access Launches

Maggie Coggan, Tuesday, 22nd January 2019 -  An accessible telecoms project has been launched in a bid to fight the growing information gap on accessible services for people with disability.    The service, hailed an Australian…

ACCAN Launches Hardship Portal

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 16th December 2014 -  The peak body for communications consumers in Australia, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), has launched an online Hardship Portal –  offering…

NFP Digital-Ready Kit

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 18th September 2014 -  The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has launched a Digital Ready Digital Business Kit and website targeted at Not for Profit organisations in the Arts, Recreation…

Search Underway for Most Accessible Apps

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 15th April 2014 -  A nationwide search is underway for Australia’s most accessible mobile phone apps. The inaugural Apps For All Challenge 2014 – Australia’s first and only competition…

Communications Grant Applications Open

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 26th February 2014 -  Not for Profit communications advocacy group, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has launched its 2104 Grants Scheme worth a quarter of a million dollars.…

Disability App Challenge

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 15th August 2013 -  The Australian Human Rights Commission is to sponsor an award for an accessible app that accommodates the needs of people with disability. The Australian Human Rights Commission…

ACCAN Wants Technology Accessible For All

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 14th August 2013 -  The Not for Profit Communications Advocacy group, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) has called for new legislation to ensure all Australians are included…

Campaign for equal access to ABC TV

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 4th October 2012 -  Australian blindness and consumer organisations have launched a national campaign to keep an 'audio description' service currently being trialled on ABC TV. And the Not…

Applications open for ACCAN $250,000 Grants Scheme

Staff Reporter, Monday, 20th February 2012 -  The 2012 round of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) Grants Scheme has opened with $250,000 in funding available for consumer-focused telecommunications…

Calls for Action as Telco Complaints Hit All-Time High

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 9th November 2011 -  The phones have hardly stopped ringing over the past year at the office of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, with a record-breaking number of new complaints lodged against…

NFP Research Shows Consumers Not Getting Best Telecommunication Deals

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 8th September 2011 -  New research shows that consumers are not getting the best telecommunications deals available because they are confused and frustrated by the information and advertising coming…

National Conference to Examine Australia’s Broadband Future

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 11th August 2011 -  The Australian Communication Consumer Action Network is to examine Australia’s broadband future at its upcoming National Conference in Sydney. The ‘Our Broadband…

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