The U.S. House of Representatives' passage of H.R. 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, was a huge bi-partisan(348 to 23) vote of confidence in the commitment of our society to support the right of equal access to commonly used public services -- especially the airwaves and Internet -- no matter what disabilities a citizen might have. The vote, on … [Read more...] about U.S. House Passage Of Telecommunications Access Act Brings Universal Closed Captioning And Other Services A Giant Step Closer
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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
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
A Night at the Theater
Usually a trip to the theater is frustrating because getting any of the dialogue is such a challenge. Even the headphones available in larger theaters most often don't do the job for me. But last weekend I went to see my friend Steve Cooper play a leading role in Blinders, a political satire put on by the Out of the Blue Theater Company at the Boston Playwrights' Theater. … [Read more...] about A Night at the Theater