Finally someone has done something very obvious and necessary, but also very difficult, that hard-of-hearing consumers have been awaiting for years. Captionfish is a website providing comprehensive listings of closed-captioned movies at theaters all over the United States. It is a sophisticated search engine that finds open captioned, "rear-window" captioned, subtitled, and … [Read more...] about Looking For A Movie And A Theater With Closed Captions? Captionfish Will Find It For You
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How Google, Congress and Marlee Matlin Will Make Universal Video Captioning Inevitable For The Web, Television And Movies
Universal captioning of videos on the web, television, in the movies and everywhere else video can be shown may still be a long time coming, but it is definitely on its way. Propelled by a combination of new technology developments, political advocacy, legislative action, court rulings, and the marketplace laws of supply and demand, universal captioning of videos is inevitable. … [Read more...] about How Google, Congress and Marlee Matlin Will Make Universal Video Captioning Inevitable For The Web, Television And Movies
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. I told him I'd be happy to serve if they could provide CART service--communications access real-time transcription--where they wheel a TV … [Read more...] about More Courts Should Provide ‘CART’ Real-Time Video Transcription Services
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. … [Read more...] about Congressman Markey Demands Internet-Video Captions For Hard-Of-Hearing Web Surfers
More Good News From WGBH NCAM: Easy Captions For Adobe Flash Videos
While I'm going on about WGBH NCAM's web video captioning success with its industry-wide coalition, I should also mention their recent introduction of a software utility that makes it easy to create captioned Adobe Flash videos. … [Read more...] about More Good News From WGBH NCAM: Easy Captions For Adobe Flash Videos