On June 9, NWAonline ran an article about two central Arkansas movie theaters that are offering Google glass to patrons who are deaf or hard…
Posts published in “Captioning”
Mirabai Knight, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, recently captioned !!Con (pronounced bang bang con), a conference for New York City programmers held May 17 – 18, according…
The May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people…
Nearly two years ago, Kolby Garrison from Greensboro, N.C., enrolled as an online student at Brown College of Court Reporting in Atlanta, Ga. Like other…
In March 2014, Gary Robson participated in TEDxBozeman with a talk posing the question: Does closed captioning still serve the deaf and hard-of-hearing audience for…
The Mail Tribune, Ore., has reported that the Rogue Valley high-tech community will tackle an array of issues associated with on-screen captions when they gather…
According to Telecompaper.com, the Dutch culture ministry plans to impose a requirement for closed captioning and voice-overs on the main public and commercial broadcast channels.…
By Rachel Farbman As an individual who grew up deaf and using American Sign Language, Andrew Phillips cares greatly about his rights to communication access.…
The DigitalJournal.com recently reported that YourSpecialEducationRights.com, an online video-based resource for parents of children with disabilities, now features closed captioning on all of their educational…
Multichannel News reports that TV streaming site Viki is teaming with Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin on a new campaign called the Billion Words March. The…
According to an April 21 article on Philly.com, area movie theaters are now getting the technology to provide captions for theater-goers who are hearing impaired.…
PRI Court Reporting, LLC, posted a piece on the company blog describing the differences between CART and captioning. The post described the basic process for…
On Feb. 20, the FCC issued its final report and order related to the captioning quality notice of proposed rulemaking, an order that had been…
In response to the government’s monthly jobs report that came out earlier this month, NPR asked listeners to send in a brief description of their…
A recent blog posted by Planet Depos, a court reporting firm based in Washington, D.C. that provides services worldwide, offers a review of the latest…
On Feb. 20, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved new rules that require program creators and distributors to ensure full access for viewers who are…
Courthouse News Service, a news service for lawyers and the news media, has reported that a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court reversed a…
VITAC will be captioning the Sochi Winter Games for NBC, marking the tenth time the company has done so. For the first time this year,…
The United Kingdom-based company 121 Captions, which provides communications support for people who have hearing impairments on a global basis, recently posted a one-minute video…
NCRA’s Captioning Community of Interest Chair Carol Studenmund, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, and NCRA Assistant Director, Government Relations Adam Finkel have been selected to speak…