Many people take their hearing for granted, but for those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, closed-captioning is a vital resource. Our focus is to get the word out about the changing laws, tricks, techniques and technologies that are shaping captions. [learn more]
Netflix is a movie lover’s dream, with thousands upon thousands of films and television shows from every genre. Streaming service made it even more convenient. It meant no more waiting for DVDs to arrive, but it also meant almost non-existent closed captioning.
Although Netflix was not required by law to provide closed captioning on their service, [...]
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 in March, in celebration of the birthday of the beloved Dr. Seuss, the National Education Association (NEA) sponsors Read Across America, an effort to get kids reading.
In our society today, though, time spent with books is overshadowed by hours spent in front of a screen. To take advantage of this fact and improve [...]
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 [...]
What if you had access to millions of exciting images, but had no way of knowing what the images meant? That’s the situation many Americans face when they have a hearing loss and encounter uncaptioned video. It’s pretty frustrating to be shut out of such a major part of our culture.
The 21st Century Communications and [...]
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 [...]
Technology is a beautiful thing. It has brought us space travel, the artificial heart and instant access to information. Still, it has its drawbacks. Hard as we might try, technology just isn’t the same as a human touch.
Let’s say you work for years and your company invest lots of money to take a spark of [...]
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 [...]
Closed captioning has become such an integral part of the American communications landscape that it appears in everything from children’s educational programming to sporting events. Since it’s important for hearing-impaired individuals to have access to those sorts of programs, why not religious programming also?
Sometimes faith-based organizations are strapped for cash and so they put captioning [...]
