Category: Captioning
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More Courts Should Provide 'CART' Real-Time Video Transcription Services
I was excused from jury duty today after I told the officer at the reception desk that none of their amplification schemes, even the portable listening devices they provide as an accommodation for people with hearing loss, would work for me.
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Congressman Markey Demands Internet-Video Captions For Hard-Of-Hearing Web Surfers
Democratic US Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts is backing a bill that would require major producers of web videos to provide captioning, a piece of legislation that provides many other benefits for people with hearing, vision and other disabilities.
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More Good News From WGBH NCAM: Easy Captions For Adobe Flash Videos
WGBH NCAM recently introduced a software utility that makes it easy to create captioned Adobe Flash videos.
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AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Collaborate On Web Video Captioning
AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to collaborate with National Center for Accessible Media to establish and manage a new International Captioning Forum to set standards for captioning on any kind of video presented on the Web.
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CapTel Captioned Telephone Service Finally Gets A Hearing In Massachusetts
Since I last wrote about CapTel captioned telephone service, a dozen additional states have started offering this vital lifeline for hard-of-hearing consumers. To my chagrin, my home state of Massachusetts now is one of only six states in the union that have not approved it.
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Let's Boycott Super Bowl Advertisers Who Don't Supply Captions
What do BlockBuster, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Expedia.com have in common? Their Super Bowl ads this year didn’t have captions. They must not want our business.
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I'm Still Waiting For CapTel Captioned Telephone Service In Massachusetts
Last night I finally got some answers to my questions about why CapTel’s captioned telephone service still isn’t available in my home state of Massachusetts.
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CapTel Phone Captioning Now Available In 32 States
With Sprint Nextel’s recent announcement of the addition of CapTel Relay Service in New Hampshire, the real-time telephone captioning service is now available in 32 states.