After years of intense lobbying by the entire hard-of-hearing community, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) has gotten a commitment from the National Football League (NFL) and FOX Broadcasting to provide closed captions for the entire Super Bowl XLV broadcast this Sunday---including all advertisements that will be aired. Everyone knows the Super Bowl is more than a … [Read more...] about It’s About Time: Entire 2011 Super Bowl Broadcast AND All Its Advertisements Will Have Closed Captioning
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U.S. Senate Passes Twenty-First Century Communications And Video Accessibility Act Of 2010 By Unanimous Consent
The U.S. Senate passed the 21st Century Communications and video Accessibility Act (S. 3304) by unanimous consent, virtually assuring that the disability rights act guaranteeing access by deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and vision-impaired consumers to all forms of media will become law. Passage was expected after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved its … [Read more...] about U.S. Senate Passes Twenty-First Century Communications And Video Accessibility Act Of 2010 By Unanimous Consent
Big Movie Theater Chains See Writing On Wall And Start To Provide More Closed Captions
On the same day that the U.S. Justice Department was asking for comments on a proposed rule requiring movie theaters to provide closed captions for hard-of-hearing customers along with audio descriptions for blind theatergoers, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley was finalizing an agreement with three of the biggest movie theater chains to dramatically increase … [Read more...] about Big Movie Theater Chains See Writing On Wall And Start To Provide More Closed Captions
An Official Complaint About Poor Video Captions Is Actually A Vote For Better Captions — Make Your Vote Count!
Everyone who needs open or closed captions to understand the TV, DVDs and web videos knows captioning services in general could stand substantial improvement. Ever since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated captioning for almost all television shows, many hard-of-hearing people have come to depend on them. On my home set I keep the "CC1" setting on all the time. … [Read more...] about An Official Complaint About Poor Video Captions Is Actually A Vote For Better Captions — Make Your Vote Count!
Looking For A Movie And A Theater With Closed Captions? Captionfish Will Find It For You
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