Technology is taking accessibility to new heights. Tens of thousands of feet in the air, that is. For the first time in inflight entertainment, LiveTV has announced that closed captioning will be available for live television content viewed by passengers onboard an airplane.
For many years, LiveTV has provided connectivity systems and entertainment options aboard aircraft [...]
“It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. It’s the hap -happiest season of all,” …unless a re-run replaces your holiday programming because of a missed deadline!
It seems that television production is always finished at the very last minute. No matter how many times goodhearted producers attempt to get ahead of schedule, something unexpected happens [...]
Nearly 300 churches recently received a letter from the FCC revealing that their closed captioning exemptions had been revoked. As sudden as this notice may seemed to its recipients, the action was actually years in the making.
In 1996, Congress created closed captioning requirements for television content. Between that point and 2005, very few exemptions were [...]
While many legislative changes and technological improvements have recently improvement media accessibility for the hard of hearing community in the United States, a current mandate is also providing a similar victory for the visually impaired. As part of the 21st CVAA, rules that were originally established in 2000 have been reinstated concerning video description services [...]
Much progress has been made in recent months regarding accessibility and closed captioning of television content on the Internet. In July, the FCC’s Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee released a report that established a six month timeframe for the new rules that require captions on the Internet.
In short, the FCC must release advanced rules for [...]
It’s a good time to live in America, when almost everything is captioned for the information and convenience of deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Still, there are programs that don’t have to be captioned – a holdover from the days when captioning was expensive, more time consuming and could put smaller programming providers right out of [...]
Every year millions of Americans throw huge parties, gather around the TV and go all out for an American tradition – The Super Bowl. Even for those of us who could care less about which teams are playing, we still watch. Perhaps it’s because of the outstanding half-time show or maybe because of the award-winning [...]
This year, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the “Americans with Disabilities Act,” landmark legislation that made the world much friendlier for a large portion of our population.
People who live with challenges appreciate the ADA every day, but this anniversary was special, because it also marked the passage of another important piece of legislation.
On July [...]
Almost everyone has used captions at one time or another, whether they are hearing impaired or not. Think about it – how many times have you read captions in a restaurant or at the gym? Closed captions are used everywhere.
After doing my own personal survey, I have realized that most people don’t have a good [...]
Closed captions link whole segments of the population to the world, and that link is about to get stronger.
The Federal Communications Commission has made it easier for the public to report captioning problems – problems that broadcasters might otherwise not know are happening.
People who use closed captioning, especially those with a hearing loss, depend on [...]
